[Talk-us] U.S.-Mexico border fence update

[Michael Corey]

Hello:

(Also posted in imports)

Several years ago I did a lot of work adding sections of the U.S.-Mexico
border fence to OSM. In light of the new U.S. president's intention to
expand the fence/wall system, I have been updating that work for our
news organization. We have now mapped the entire existing fence with
significantly more official data and more information about individual
segments.

I would like to share this work back into OpenStreetMap, but it may be
difficult to modify or sync up with my old work, since I have
changed/added/subtracted significant features.

Does anyone have thoughts on how to do this most efficiently and without
causing major headaches? I would like to share the maps on both OSM and
on Github, so I will need some kind of workflow to keep everything
synced up.

The current fence is captured by this relation:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2266294

Any advice people have from past experience would be most welcome.

Thanks much,


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Michael Corey
Senior News Applications Developer
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twitter: @mikejcorey