John, You need to follow the import guidelines on the wiki.
First step, though, is identifying the data license to see if it's even possible. What's the URL for this data? - Serge On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 11:12 PM, John J Czaplewski <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings! > > I'm an experienced mapper, but novice OSM contributor, and am looking to > greatly improve OSM in my area. I recently noticed that the building > footprints in Madison WI leave a lot to be desired, and often times are just > wrong. However, in other places, such as on the University of Wisconsin > campus, coverage is fantastic. > > I did some digging and found a shapefile published by the city of all > building footprints and would like to use it to enrich the map. However, I'm > not sure what is the best way to import this data. I'd like to replace > existing features that are low quality, add nonexistent features, and leave > other existing features as-is. I should also mention this data only contains > geometry and no additional attributes about the buildings, so in all cases > where there is an existing feature with some attributes, I would like to > preserve those. > > Does anyone have any tips or tricks for this type of situation? Thanks in > advance! > > John > > _______________________________________________ > Imports-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports-us > _______________________________________________ Imports-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports-us
