Hi Jô and Polygot, Wow this is really brilliant! I am inspired and will definitely try it out. The method really makes work easy.
Gertrude On Mar 7, 2016 10:38 PM, "Jo" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, to make things easier I added another column to that spreadsheet. It > contains a formula and with a bit of hocus pocus this becomes a clickable > link. > > Now if you have JOSM running AND remote control is enabled AND an edit > layer is open, a node will appear near a school in Tanzania, like magic. > That node has all the tags, that are present in the spreadsheet. The names > of the region, ward and district are converted from ALL CAPS to Init Caps. > I'm wondering if it would make sense to also add addr:country=TZ. > > There are 14769 schools in that spreadsheet though, so Blake is right when > he says a page needs to be created to describe this import, which is what > it is, of course. The first question will, of course be: what is the source > of this data? Is that source compatible with OSM's license? Or did we get > explicit permission to import this data? If we didn't then we have the risk > that all our hard labour gets redacted (removed) from the database once > again. > > A succesful import of 24000 schools is happening in Uganda. It took > several weeks to get it approved and we're almost done with it now. This is > because a dedicated team worked on them though. It takes a while to get up > to speed, as it's quite different from what we usually do, and you are > supposed to use a dedicated import account username_import. > > Polyglot > > 2016-03-07 15:26 GMT+01:00 Arun Ganesh <[email protected]>: > >> This is a valuable project to support. Is it possible to add a source for >> the data in the spreadsheet? >> >> >> >> -- >> Arun Ganesh >> (planemad) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad> >> <http://j.mp/ArunGanesh> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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