[OSM-talk] Countries that have NOT had any imports?

[David Groom]

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From: "Elena ``of Valhalla''" <elena.valhalla at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Countries that have NOT had any imports?


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> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 02:41:12PM -0700, Kai Krueger wrote:
>> with all the talk about imports recently, I am wondering which countries
>> have actually _not_ seen any imports so far? I.e. which communities have
>> chosen to build all their data from "traditional" surveying and ignored 
>> any
>> other available data sources?
>
> In Italy we've had very few imports of road data (I know of none):
> what we have comes from gps survey and tracing from areal pics,
> mostly done by local mappers.
>
> On the other hand, we've had quite a few imports of other kinds of data:
> borders, landuse, some buildings and other stuff that is harder to
> get from gps traces and hard/boring to trace from areal pics.
>

And lets not forget the import of PGS coastline data which, as far as I 
know, covered pretty much every country with a maritime coastline.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Almien_coastlines_%28PGS%29

David


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