Charlotte Wolter wrote: > > This is data from the Navajo Division of Transportation. There > is no mention of copyright in their published material, but I am > checking with the head of the division. I will send him the license > information and make sure it is OK before going any further. > Also, I have been correcting some of the Tiger data manually > in places on the reservation where I know the roads. The Yahoo images > are helpful, but, although they are better than Tiger, they, too, can > be out of date. It's tedious, so even if some of my work gets wiped > out, I probably could live with it. > What are common ways to break up data? Do you usually do it by > latitude and longitude? (Which brings up another question: Why doesn't > Potlatch show latitude and longitude, a la Google Earth? It would be > helpful.) > > --C > > At 11:23 AM 12/19/2009, you wrote: >> 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] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> newbies mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies > > Charlotte Wolter > Partnership Assistant > U.S. Census > 1-310-597-4040 > [email protected] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies >
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