On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Duncan Hill <dun...@soncan.ca> wrote: > I've recently imported some CanVec 10 data into the North Bay, Ontario area. > It's been hard to figure out the best way to do this because of the assorted > versions of existing data in the area. After chatting with some folks in the > #osm-ca channel, I left the existing major highways to preserve routing. > Since this is the first time I've imported any CanVec data, I am wondering > if this is the best way to do it when there is existing data in the area. I > would really appreciate it if someone could take a look at my import in case > I have broken something.
Your import looks fine to me. In areas with existing data, you need to merge the existing data with the new data, by cutting and pasting new CanVec data into OSM and then merging it with old data (by joining roads that you copy from CanVec with existing roads, and cleaning up any old imported data that is inaccurate e.g. roads with the wrong name). This is time consuming but necessary. When you import street address data, please join the imported street address data with address data from adjacent CanVec tiles. This is very time consuming but needs to be done properly. Also the "FixAddresses" plugin in JOSM might be helpful to compare road names of imported street address data with road names in the database, although you should only use it on a small area, as it is really slow if you try to use it on a large area. _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
