On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 7:35 AM, Thomas Colson <[email protected]>wrote:
> Great Smoky Mountains National Park is planning to update its core base > data. We have identified many inconsistencies in online location-based data > which often results in hazardous navigation scenarios for park visitors > (e.g. travel on a closed trail, wrong way on road, etc…) and plan to slowly > migrate our latest data collection to the public domain. In addition, we > are including many new Points of Interest and other man-made features not > presently included in the park OSM footprint.**** > > ** ** > > Initial planning and announcement to the OSM community is here > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Great_Smoky_Mountains_National_Park**** > > ** > First off thank you for undertaking this project. You may get push back on not creating a dedicated import account. Assuming contributors are cutting and pasting data into OSM and using Bing images to verify what is being changed, I don't see a problem. I would add a specific changeset to each upload such as gsmnp_import=yes to help identify the import. I'm curious about the NHD portion of the import. Out west we have many unnamed streams that are seasonal (intermittent.) In fact they are more numerous than named streams. I would recommend not adding unnamed seasonal stream. They don't add much value and I understand that if all were added the OSM database would probably require additional storage space. -- Clifford OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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