Thanks, That is an interesting approach.
I think that is BRILLIANT! Considering that software like the osm-world-routable-garmin download maps would not detect things tagged as 'ourFootPrints:highway=residential'. As long as that person uses a dedicated account, and takes full responsibility, its cool. I would recommend 2 things: 1: add the 'source=ourFootPrints.de' tag to it all 2: slice up the OSM file to bite sized geographical pieces ie. Small enough that JOSM can happely view that whole area in 1 download. -this can easily be done manually, as your file isnt that big. And have a mapping party (social get together) and load it all at once. My 2 cents, Sam On 1/11/10, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com> wrote: > ourFootPrints.de > (http://www.ourfootprints.de/gps/mapsource-island_e.html) is an effort > started in 2004 to create a free of change Garmin map of Iceland, for > the past year I've been in contact with Thomas Ransberger who runs the > project about getting his data into OpenStreetMap since we share > similar goals. > > A few days ago Thomas provided me with GPX traces & a dump of the road > data on his map to start with. That's 22MB of GPX traces and a 29MB > .osm file (the whole of Iceland.osm is around 67MB by comparison). > I've already imported the GPX data under a dedicated user account with > the .osm data to follow soon. > > The import user: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ourFootPrints%20import/traces > The raw data: http://github.com/avar/ourfootprints-data > Import scripts / documentation: > http://github.com/avar/ourfootprints-import > > Here's the 29MB .osm file which is approximately what I'll be > importing, after I've fixed up the source tags / highway tags etc.: > > !! DO NOT UPLOAD THIS > http://v.nix.is/~avar/noindex/ourfootprints/ofp.osm.bz2 !! > > The plan is basically to upload that as-is except change the tags to > be e.g. ourfootprints:highway=residential instead of > highway=residential. That way a lot of duplicate data will be added to > the database temporarily until we manually review & sort it out by > either deleting it, merging it in to have highway=residential. Most of > the data users like the renderers, mkgmap etc. won't notice since the > roads will use previously unused tags. > > _______________________________________________ > Imports mailing list > impo...@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports > -- Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blog: http://Acrosscanadatrails.blogspot.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans Skype: samvekemans OpenStreetMap IRC: http://irc.openstreetmap.org @Acrosscanadatrails _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk