[OSM-talk] Boundaries in Haiti

Jonas Krückel osm at jonas-krueckel.de
Sat Jan 16 15:57:22 GMT 2010


Hi,

Am 16.01.2010 um 16:43 schrieb Frédéric Bonifas:

> Hi,
> 
> Based on the data here :
> https://www.geoint-online.net/community/haitiearthquake/default.aspx
> of the US Census Bureau, I extracted the city and town borders for
> Haiti.
> The tags I used are :
> 
> is_in="name of the district"
> name=*
> boundary=administrative
> admin_level=8
> source=US Census Bureau
> population=*
> id_commune="ID given in the source file"
> 
> The file is here : http://fredericbonifas.free.fr/haiti_boundaries.osm
> 
> Does it seem ok to you before uploading ?
> Is there an easy to remove these boundaries if we get better ones later ?

Please create a special import account for this. The data should be easily removable as long as the source tag is unique and is not deleted. I would suggest to use "source=US Census Bureau, boundary import, 16/01/2010"

Please also add information about the import to the Haiti wiki page.

Jonas





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