2009/9/4 Mike Smith <[email protected]>: > So the offer has been made by a couple of geographic specialists in a > couple of city councils for them to provide an initial data load from > their GIS for use by OSM. The question is what do we want (in > general); what format should it be in; how is an import facilitated > (who can do it)?
What format, osm format would be great! :) But seriously, shape files seem to be the next useful and can be converted to OSM, it really depends what format they can give the data to us is and if we can convert that to something more useful. The next question is going to be a little more difficult if the areas you are importing already have data. People from other countries have and are dealing with this so we'd be able to get help. The main thing to worry about is licensing, is the data being released under favourable terms, and also is the data allowed to be released under those terms. That is, was the data derived from another data set with more restrictions. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
