[Talk-us] Planning an Import in Prince George's County, Maryland

Clifford Snow clifford at snowandsnow.us
Thu Jun 7 14:30:13 UTC 2018


Gregory,
Any import should start with a review of the Import Guidelines [1] and
discussion with the local community, which you started with your email.
When you create the import page on the wiki, please describe which
attributes from the shapefile you plan to add to OSM and how they map to
OSM tags. We'll want to know how you plan to conflat existing data with the
new data. Ideally, any existing data will be merged with the new data.
Lastly, how will the data be imported. Are you planning on using a Tasking
Manager or a bulk upload (not recommended) to OSM?

If there are any mappers in the area, I would encourage you to contact them
and invite them to participate. An import can be a great way to build a
community.

If you haven't already joined our US Slack community, please sign up at
https://osmus-slack.herokuapp.com/. The community can help you with build
your import plan.

Best,
Clifford



[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines

On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 5:46 AM Mulea, Gregory <gregory.mulea at ppd.mncppc.org>
wrote:

> I’m an Intern for the MNCPPC in Maryland and we are interested in
> uploading some of their GIS data into OSM.
>
> The data is open for all of the public to use.
>
> So far we plan on uploading data such as Buildings, POIs, and Parks.  Any
> other suggestions would most likely be available too.
>
>
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/M-NCPPC_Planning_Department is the
> initial OSM Wiki Page that I plan on updating as we develop our plan.
>
>
>
> Initially we would like to do a test import of a relatively small shp file
> (Libraries point file) in order to prepare the other and potentially much
> larger files.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
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