On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Benjamin Wragg <bwr...@isasolutions.com.au> wrote:
> I'd like to investigate a process to mass update missing street names in > Queensland Australia. I recently tried to use Openstreetmap in the northern > part of Queensland around the city of Cairns and found a terrible lack of > street names. I'd estimate only about 5%-10% of roads have names! I looked > into acquiring them from the government and have sourced them in shapefile > format and got their written permission to use them in Openstreetmap. You should know that a mass import needs some preparation and a good knowledge of the OSM project itself. For instance, we have some conventions for street names like avoiding abbreviations, capital letters, etc (maybe it's different in Australia). Probably one of the major issue will be to match your shapefile objects with the related OSM entities. OSM ways might require some split at junctions etc. The easier alternative as suggested by Theodin in the forum is to publish the source and call the crowd to set manually the missing names. For that, you could use some task manager tool like the one developed by HOT: http://tasks.hotosm.org/ Btw, you should open a wiki page about the import and publish somewhere the written permission from the government (or point out the license) Pieren _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports