[OSM-talk] Adding vmap0 road data to OSM

[Rodrigo Moya]

On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 12:48 -0500, Will Harrison wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I'm involved with the FlightGear Flight Simulator
> (http://www.flightgear.org) and I've volunteered to help the custom
> scenery project ( http://www.custom-scenery.org/Home.223.0.html) by
> adding vmap0 road data to OSM. I originally tried to start this task
> on my own, but I quickly realized that I probably won't be able to do
> this on my own. Basically, I'm wondering if anyone is interested in
> helping. 
> 
> Vmap0 contains road data for the entire world. The road data is
> available here:
> ftp://ftp.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/FlightGear/TGShapes/ 
> 
> The file that contain the road data are called "roads_freeway.tar.bz2"
> and "roads_road.tar.bz2". Once extracted, the data can be loaded into
> an editor like QGIS. Then it's possible to view the roads and add them
> to OSM. 
> 
> This would benefit the custom scenery project, since once all the
> vmap0 road data have been added to OSM the intent is to use OSM data
> for the scenery. But I think this could also be very helpful to the
> OSM project, as vmap0 contains data for the entire world and it would
> give OSM at least rough coverage of the entire globe. Is anyone
> interested in helping? 
> 
I wouldn't mind having this data for the area I cover, if it were not
directly imported (converted to the actual roads in OSM). If the data is
not really precise, it would help to have it, for instance, as GPX
tracklogs, so that mappers could use them for their areas.

For uncovered areas, I guess it is ok to directly import it.
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo at gnome-db.org>