[OSM-talk] Africa Road data import

[Robert Soden]

Hello,

I wrote a little while back that we would be working on some data  
imports for Africa.  In short, we received permission from 2 different  
UN data repo's to contribute their base road, river, rail, and admin  
boundary data to OSM.  So far, we have cleaned and imported 6  
countries worth of road layers.  Next up is to do some final QA, once  
we can see the data in Potlach, then onto the other layers for each of  
the 6 countries.  And there are still 5 more countries available to us  
to work on.

I wrote a blog-post about the progess thus far here: http://is.gd/ 
tTb4  All seemed to go well with the import under the new API, though  
we had a bit of trouble with DRC (it's a huge file).

We've received several emails from folks wanting to help us in this  
process.  Now that we (think) we've got our feet under us, we hope to  
work with them as we process the remaining data.

Cheers,
Robert Soden

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