[OSM-talk] DASFIF airport data (was: Need help with mathematics for runways)

[Jon Burgess]

On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 12:30 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Jon,
> 
> > I wrote a script to convert DAFIF airport and runwat data to OSM but
> > I've never uploaded it to SVN since no one has provided a clear  
> > 'ok' as
> > to the legal status of using the data.
> 
> I have the impressing that waiting for anyone's ok (or even waiting  
> for votes) doesn't get you far in this project. I'd say float your  
> idea on the list (as you have done, I believe) and if nobody cries  
> foul then just do it. Worst case, you can still remove things again  
> if you put in a proper source tag.
> 
> The only reservation I'd have is that you have to take care not to  
> duplicate airports that are already in the database. You'd either  
> have to see to that manually, or maybe use pieces of Joerg Ostertag's  
> osmfilter script (which automatically converts GPS traces to segments  
> and checks the server for possible collisions).
> 
> Of course if your DAFIF data is more precise and/or more detailed  
> than what is already there, you could also just delete the existing  
> stuff.
> 
> Bye
> Frederik
> 

OK you've convinced me. I've uploaded the script and the 2 DAFIF data
files which it needs to SVN:

$ ls svn.openstreetmap.org/utils/import/dafif2osm/
ARPT.TXT  copyright.txt  dafif2osm.pl  README.TXT  RWY.TXT

	Jon