Hi! Over the last weekend we have completed the import. Well, Christoph did all the work, I was mostly along for the ride. Thanks Christoph!
These are the changesets: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/MOA%20import/edits Details of the import: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Antarctica/Import_2013 This map already has all the current data and mostly current tiles: http://www.openstreetmap.de/karte.html New coastlines are available from: http://openstreetmapdata.com/ Jochen On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:16:01PM +0100, Christoph Hormann wrote: > Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:16:01 +0100 > From: Christoph Hormann <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Imports] Antarctica coastline/shelf-ice import > > > Hello, > > A week ago we announced the plan to import better coastline and new > ice shelf data for Antarctica on this list. We also sent mails about > these plans to [email protected], [email protected], and > [email protected]. (The last is the New Zealand OSM list, > people from there had been importing official New Zealand Government > data to Antarctica and we wanted to coordinate with them.) > > Please see the wiki for the current state of this proposal: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Antarctica/Import_2013 > > There were a few questions about our plans and some objections to the > planned removal of the Antarctica-wide glacier multipolygon and the > change of the coastline from the "grounding line" to the "calving > line". We answered all these mails and explained our reasoning. The > coastline closing question which has been discussed as well won't > seriously affect the import since we can artificially close it if > necessary although we would prefer not to. We haven't heard any > further arguments or objections in the last days so we believe people > are generally happy with our plans. > > If we don't see any objections in the next days, we will do the > import on the next weekend (March 16./17.). The import will be done > according to the plan outlined on the wiki page, a special user will > be used for the import and it will be done in a single or very few > changesets, so if there are any problems it is easy to revert. > > One further issue: Before announcing the import we had contacted the > SCAR (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research) concerning possible > use of the Antarctic Digital Database (http://www.add.scar.org/). This > data is more detailed and mostly newer than what we plan to import now > but it is assembled from various sources making it somewhat > non-uniform. Last week, after our announcement here we got permission > for using their data in OSM. > > We have looked into this data but nevertheless decided to "stick to the > plan" and import the MOA data first. Here are the reasons: > > The MOA data is much better than what we currently have and it can > be imported all at once. We can test the new tagging scheme with it and > we can easily revert if there are problems. The ADD data is > significantly more detailed and our first analysis revealed various > inconsistencies that need to be dealt with. This means there is more > work involved preparing it for import and it will be necessary to do > this in several pieces. This will be much easier with a fairly > accurate data set and tagging already in place. > > So we want to do the MOA import as planned - although we might leave out > those islands that require significant hand work to avoid the need to > do this twice. Afterwards we can work on the ADD data, but that will > be a separate effort. Maybe it can be done as a community effort where > people check and import pieces of the data. > > -- > Christoph Hormann > http://www.imagico.de/ > > _______________________________________________ > Imports mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports -- Jochen Topf [email protected] http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
