[OSM-Talk-ZA] SAGNS city/town/suburb import

Grant Slater openstreetmap at firefishy.com
Wed May 7 12:39:08 BST 2008


David Ellefsen wrote:
>
> I have written a script to import the city/town/suburb information 
> from the SAGNS database into OSM. 
> The process will insert almost all of the city/town/suburb points for the whole of SA, 
> merging the existing OSM city/town/suburb nodes with the corresponding 
> entries in the SAGNS db.

Brilliant stuff. I think it's going to be a great way to see what areas 
in the major still need to be completed.

> I would like to perform the upload on Wednesday or Thursday night 
> after OSMXAPI refreshes with the latest planet dump.
> Right... after that long and rather boring email ;-). Any 
> comments/questions?

AFAIK the OSMXAPI now runs off the hourly and minutely osmosis diffs.

Let us know when you have uploaded.

/ Grant




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