Hi John, Thanks for your email. I have yet to set up a wiki, I'm still considering the best approach.
I am trying to import a shapefile of plots or stands. The shapefile I have has just over 6000 stands. For the 2000 plus existing buildings in OSM that will conflict I'm not yet sure what the best approach is. I am exploring JOSM editor and looking for ways to resolve conflicts - if you have any advice on this, would be greatly appreciated. As far as the Open Location Code we had not considered it -- the advantage of the stand number is that local residents are familiar with it. OLC codes may take some time to implement. Best, Jason On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 6:48 PM John Whelan <[email protected]> wrote: > I missed the link to your wiki page plan. > > Are you importing plots or buildings? > > If buildings how will you cope with the 2,200+ buildings already mapped? > > Have you considered the use of Open Location Code for addresses? OSMand > supports this. > > Thanks John > > Jason Owen wrote on 2019-02-11 3:18 AM: > > Dear OSM community, > > I am from Zimbabwe and I’m working with the Local Authority in Kariba Town > (a small town in the West of the country). The Local Authority would like > to launch an app reliant on OSM data. The app is for reporting local issues > and users will geolocate issues before submitting a form. Zimbabwe does not > have a great street address system and most streets in Kariba are not > officially named. Most houses do not have street numbers or street > names/addresses. However, all houses have got what is known as a “Stand > Number” which is given to the property owner when they purchase their > property. > > The local authority has good GIS capabilities and has been creating GIS > layers for points of interest and building footprints with useful > attributes such as the stand number. I am helping them to investigate the > possibility of uploading a shapefile of all property boundaries with stand > number attributes to OSM. This will greatly improve the geocoding > possibilities for Kariba residents. > > I am following the steps laid out in the Import Guidelines - > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines. I would like to > inform the imports mailing list of our intentions and I look forward to > your comments and advice about this proposed import. > > Thanks so much, > Jason > > _______________________________________________ > Imports mailing > [email protected]https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports > > > -- > Sent from Postbox > <https://www.postbox-inc.com/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=siglink&utm_campaign=reach> >
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