Unless I hear anything within the next few days, I will assume the project is go for launch.
- Christer van der Meeren On 17 June 2015 at 19:28, Christer van der Meeren <[email protected]> wrote: > We do not think it likely that missing a road will be a problem. As said > on the Wiki page, when you are finished importing tags/geometry from a road > you delete it from the source file, and thus you know exactly what remains > (JOSM can give you e.g. the number of roads left in a file/layer). > > The community has thorougly discussed tools and methods, and have arrived > at the conclusion that due to the amount of existing data in OSM and the > diffiulty of matching Elveg roads with existing OSM roads, a fully manual > import is the best choice. > > The progress table is not critical to this import. It is only used as a > rough indicator of what is done and what remains to be done. Whether the > "importers" want to update progress continually is up to them. Minimally - > if I want to work on roads from a municipality, I add my name to the table > in the row for that municipality, and mark it as completed when done. > Perhaps you misunderstood the purpose of this table? (I shan't blame you, > it's in Norwegian after all...) To clarify: Each row in the table > corresponds to one municipality, i.e. one data file, imported by one user. > > > > > On 17 June 2015 at 19:13, Sander Deryckere <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I honestly think that the lack of tools would make this a difficult job. >> >> Editing a giant wiki table isn't easy, and it isn't fine-grained either >> (what if someone missed a street?). >> >> In the UK, they're used to comparing OS data with OSM data, and using >> these comparisons for improvement of OSM. I think you should try to do the >> same, instead of giving all responsibility to users for detecting mistakes. >> >> See f.e. this wiki page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OS_Locator >> >> I think using a comparison tool similar to the OS locator tools would >> work a lot better than a wiki page. >> >> Regards, >> Sander >> >> 2015-06-17 17:13 GMT+02:00 Christer van der Meeren <[email protected]>: >> >>> The Norwegian OSM community (mailing list [email protected]) is about to >>> start an import of all Norwegian roads. The import is detailed here: >>> >>> >>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue/Road_import_%28Norway%29 >>> >>> This import has been in planning for quite some time. Note that due to >>> the extensive existing OSM road data in Norway, this is a purely manual >>> import (as detailed on the Wiki page). Existing roads will have their >>> geometry and tags updated to match the dataset, and new roads are only >>> copied/pasted manually on a road-by-road if there is some other >>> confirmation that the roads actually exist (local knowledge, aerial >>> imagery, etc.). We thus expect this will take quite some time and are eager >>> to get started. Let me know if you need anything else. :) >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Christer van der Meeren >>> (on behalf of [email protected]) >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Imports mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports >>> >>> >> >
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