I'm doing a small-scale (~250 buildings) import of the University of Vermont. (I posted about this a while ago, it took forever to get the data.)
What is the best way to merge the data I'll be importing with the data that's already there? For example, I have building outlines that are much better than what's already there, but some buildings have tags (amenity=library, tourism=museum) that my imported data doesn't. Further, when changes are made to the university's data source, I'd like to be able to re-import and not lose any changes people have made to OSM. Finally, there's the matter of history, which I'd like to be able to keep if possible. I'm most familiar with JOSM for editing OSM data, but I've also used Merkaartor and Potlatch. In none of them could I find a way to, for example, replace all the nodes in one way with a copy of the nodes in a different way, but keep the first way's id, history, and tags. For reference, here's how I am working/would like to work with the data: I'm given an AutoCAD file with building outlines. I run it through a hand-written program heavily based on ogr2osm.py, which calls to some of our internal databases and spits out a .osm file. I then take that .osm file and open it in a GUI OSM editor and hand-merge our data with OSM data. Thanks, --Andrew _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
