Ako, I would go for uploading it as GPX. this way mappers, local or non-local can use it whether they are seriously mapping Palawan or just practicing to map on OSM.
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:55 AM, maning sambale <emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > Request for Comments (RFC) for importing Palawan Road Data. > > An engineering/surveying company gave me data for the roads of > Palawan. The company allowed us to add this data to Openstreetmap. > I am fairly certain it didn't come from copyrighted sources, since > they surveyed it themselves. > > See coverage here: > whole Palawan > http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3401/3597237046_913bd6f8cb_o.png > > subset for details (red is OSM road, blue is the data): > http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2293/3597238322_c0b6e5c188_o.png > > The problem is: > 1. No attribute information (road name and type). Just a lot > topologically and positionally accurate lines. > 2. The data seems shifted westward by a few meters (probably a datum > issue, > should be easy to manually adjust before upload). > > We had imported this kind of data before (Laguna roads). AFAIK, > laguna editors like ianlopez had to manually edit a lot to make it > what it is now. > > Any advice? Some options I can think of are: > > 1. Don't add it, we might have a lot of data but not very useful (no > road name, type). Might be more difficult to maintain (something like > Tiger data before). > 2. Convert it to GPX and allow Palawan editors (meron ba?) to use it > as reference for tracing. > 3. Import with the following tags: > > highway=road > source=name of company > FIXME=fix for names and highway type. > > > -- > cheers, > maning > ------------------------------------------------------ > "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden > wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ > blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > talk-ph mailing list > talk-ph@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph > -- website administrator: - www.waypoints.ph - reeflife.eppgarcia.com PADI Divemaster #491048
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