Re: [Talk-us] New to lists and would like to suggest some imports

2018-01-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 09.01.2018 01:54, Russell Meier wrote: > I am new to the idea of discussing additions to OSM and like to do my > best to follow best practices in suggesting an import. I am not sure > were to start. First of all, be aware that data imports are not the normal way in which data is added to

Re: [Talk-us] New to lists and would like to suggest some imports

2018-01-08 Thread Mateusz Konieczny
On Mon, 8 Jan 2018 19:54:09 -0500 Russell Meier wrote: > I am not sure were to start. (...) > Thanks, > > Treldin Assuming that you are https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Treldin - I would start from manual mapping to be better aware how mapper interacts with data.

Re: [Talk-us] New to lists and would like to suggest some imports

2018-01-08 Thread Michael Patrick
I just took a cursory sample of a couple 'mostly useful to OSM' the Tennessee data, and me thinks their deployment isn't all that well thought out. The collection appears to be a mix of Open, public, licensed for certain uses, and joint licensing. For instance the Transportation / Roads has the

Re: [Talk-us] New to lists and would like to suggest some imports

2018-01-08 Thread Joe Sapletal
Would be nice to combine those building polygons with address data. If they don’t have any readily available it looks like http://results.openaddresses.io/ has collected a lot of address data for Tennessee. Could be a really big project to get the community behind. Might be fun. Joe From:

[Talk-us] New to lists and would like to suggest some imports

2018-01-08 Thread Russell Meier
Greetings, I am new to the idea of discussing additions to OSM and like to do my best to follow best practices in suggesting an import. I am not sure were to start. I live in Tennessee USA. The State of Tennessee has posted a number of datasets without any license restrictions on this site