Hi,
I just posted the following post on
http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=406940
It was suggested that I post it here to get your thoughts.
Regards,
Benjamin
Hi List,
I'd like to investigate a process to mass update missing street names in
Queensland Australia. I recently tried to use Openstreetmap in the northern
part of Queensland around the city of Cairns and found a terrible lack of
street names. I'd estimate only about 5%-10% of roads have names! I looked into
acquiring them from the government and have sourced them in shapefile format
and got their written permission to use them in Openstreetmap.
I'm just struggling (due to limited editing knowledge of osm) to know how to go
about merging this acquired data with the osm road data. I was thinking of
doing something like a spatial join between the two layer but I can't seem to
find any such features in editors like josm, etc. Or do I have to do something
like download the osm data into a local db, edit it using something like qgis
and then somehow export the existing data back to osm servers? I've an
experienced GIS user and could merge the data in something like ArcGIS no
problem, just not sure how to get my changes back up to the osm servers.
Look forward to hearing any suggestions.
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