[Talk-us] Procedures for Bulk Uploading Road Centerline Data

[Ian Dees]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Spencer Riddile
<riddile_spencer at yahoo.com>wrote:

> If someone wanted to upload public domain, state road centerline data to
> OSM, what procedures could they take?  It seems like what we would like to
> do is overwrite Tiger data but preserve user contributed data.  I did see an
> example of using an opensource GIS plugin (RoadMatcher) that compares road
> networks (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Geobase_NRN_-_OSM_Map_Feature)
> before uploading road data.  Are there other examples of procedures people
> have used or best practices to bulk upload road centerline data?


I don't believe anyone has come up with an automated way of updating
existing data with better/different data. The best you can do is download
the existing data and compare it manually with the newly-converted data.
Perhaps we could write some simple tool to crowd-source the comparison
between new and old data:

"Here is the old data, here is the new data. Look at the road named "XYZ
Rd.". Is:

a) the old data more correct
b) the new data more correct
c) neither is correct
d) ..."
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