[OSM-talk] Data Import Support Working Group

[marcus.wolschon at googlemail.com]

On Thu, 14 May 2009 15:26:37 +0000, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 1:26 AM, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
>> The foundation today discussed the perceived need for a working group
>> to help people import data.
>>
>> We know there are highly talented individuals out there who are able
>> to find data to import, have the social skills and time to get data
>> holders to release it to OSM, have the legal knowledge to see if it's
>> ok to import and have the technical skills to do the actual importing.
>> They are doing amazing work.

I also welcome this development.

I could need support in organizing the Import of the german
TMC location-codes myself. (This will allow routing- and navigation
-applications that use OSM to use electronic traffic-messages very easily.)
I already wrote the code to parse these location-codes, have a schema,
reference-implementation to use them, ... but I don't know
how to organize the import of the parts that can be automatically
imported and more importantly the parts that need manual assistance.

(When germany is done there are a dozen other countries with TMC
 location-codes that have published them openly or may be willing to
 do so.)

Marcus