Okay, I'm finally getting off my backside and thinking about doing some decent editing.
In Canada, we've been doing some bulk importing of data from the GeoBase.ca website. This was being done by robots, and we used a roadmatcher program to look for existing roads, and if they were already in the OSM database, then the robot deferred to the user data over the GeoBase data. This was okay where there was a lot of really good user data, but a lot of the user data was traced from really low resolution images. As such, the roads are not in the right place, or just generally poor quality. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/15165896 We have the GeoBase data as well as Canvec data in OSM format now that is available for people to work from. I can load in an OSM file with all the data showing nicely. I am just wondering how one goes about promoting data from one layer to another. Here's what I have done on a limited test basis (just a couple roads near Bonnyville). I selected and removed the poor quality roads from the downloaded OSM layer. I then went to the GeoBase layer, and selected the roads from there. I copied the selected way, moved back to the OSM downloaded layer, and then hit "Paste selected features" which seems to paste them onto that layer properly. I then hit upload, and it looks like the way was uploaded properly. Here's the change set for uploading the ways that make up this road. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/5857007 Looks good to me, I'm just wondering if that's the standard process, or if there's some other way to select the ways, and "promote" them to make them get put into the "to be uploaded" queue. There's a lot of stuff that needs to be mended, and I want to make sure I'm doing things the proper way. James VE6SRV _______________________________________________ Merkaartor mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/merkaartor
