Welcome indeed Patricia!
By placing your data into OSM there is legal stuff to consider .. the
entered data becomes available for anyone to use. Some simple reading
for non lawyers http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Copyright
Conflating or merging your data can be tedious where both data bases
contain what is supposedly the same thing.
An assessment of which is 'best' and where transitions occur is difficult.
Where the features are above ground satellite imagery is helpful.
Underground stuff is very difficult .. for example I recently made some
changes to platforms 5 and 6 at Epping Station base on the above ground
positions of the lifts.
Please ask for any difficulties you may have, or where you require more
information.
On 27-Mar-17 08:34 AM, Andrew Harvey wrote:
Hi Patricia,
It's really great to see your interest here! It is very much welcome.
I would recommend you take a look at the Import Guidelines if you
haven't already
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines which explain
the process for doing imports into OSM. Covering licensing community
by-in and how to actually do an import.
The OpenStreetMap wiki is the best place to find out about our schema.
Information about railway mapping is at
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Railways and
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenRailwayMap/Tagging.
In my eyes the biggest challenge will be conflating your data with the
existing OSM data. It's likely this will need to be done manually, but
certainly something which we will be able to work out through further
discussion and exploration.
Are you considering also releasing this data set on it's own as open
data? That would allow the OSM community to have a look at this data
to see what might be involved in merging it with OSM.
Don't hesitate to ask for further help, there are some very passionate
people in our OSM community.
Best regards,
--
Andrew Harvey
On Mon, 27 Mar 2017, at 08:13 AM, BYRNE, PATRICIA wrote:
To Whom It May Concern,
I work for a rail operator in NSW Australia and we are currently
exploring the idea of importing some of our corporate rail, signal
and track speed GIS data to open rail map that would cover the
greater Sydney region.
At this exploratory stage, I was wondering if you could provide us
with details about the steps required to import this data and sample
data schema so we can match our data to this.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Kind regards,
Patricia
Patricia Byrne
Geospatial Officer
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