[OSM-talk] LINZ import

[malenki]

John Smith wrote:

>On 16 April 2010 09:39, Robin Paulson <robin.paulson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> do oyu have any suggestions how to keep the metadata when importing?
>> i presume it is a non-manual method, i.e. uploading a .osm file -
>> how do you merge the two data sets?
>
>You open the area as normal and open the osm file as a different layer
>and then you can copy and paste between layers.

I helped at some imports for Kosovo where it was done this way.¹ 
The source data was split into small chunks (iirc 100 ways), uploaded
and linked at the wiki, where users could "subscribe" to the chunks they
would import.
Worked quite well.

hth
malenki

¹http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Kosovo_iMMAP_Import