Charlotte, I would suggest talking to people on the imports list (I am posting this to there as well). Shapefiles are a pretty common type of file for geographic data.
Also what is the license of the data? Is the license for the data compatible with OSM? Here are the import guidelines: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines Since there is already road TIGER data and people have probably made edits to it the process is going to take some manual work. I would recommend it being broken up into areas and having people manually compare data. Kate Chapman user: wonderchook On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Charlotte Wolter <[email protected]>wrote: > Folks, > > I have acess to some road data in the form of a "shape file." It > is over a fairly large area in Arizona and New Mexico. What is the best and > safest way to go about bringing this data into OSM? > I do not have experience with this type of data (e.g., shape > files). > > Charlotte > > Charlotte Wolter > 927 18th Street Suite A > Santa Monica, California > 90403 > +1-310-597-4040 > [email protected] > > *The Four Internet Freedoms* > Freedom to visit any site on the Internet > Freedom to access any content or service that is not illegal > Freedom to attach any device that does not interfere with the network > Freedom to know all the terms of a service, particularly any that would > affect the first three freedoms. > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies > >
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