On Sun, 19 Jul 2020 at 22:28, Greg Dutkowski <greg.dutkow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > Thanks for everyone's input. > Sebastien best understood what I am trying to do. > It seems inefficient for local government to make their data open and then > hope the OSM community translates it to OSM tagging. > Better for local government to put their data directly into OSM and > maintain a two way link to their data. > While that is certainly welcome, I would never have an expectation of it. I expectat that all public funded works are made open without restrictions on use (of course subject to privacy concerns or other special considerations) so at least the OSM community can use it if we like, anything above and beyond this is a welcome contribution. If a local government is thinking about this, I'd just say engage with us so we can all work together. > Examples and tools from anyone who is trying to keep external data in > sync with OSM will be most useful. > There are some conflation tools at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Conflation but they appear to all need a lot of coding to get up and running.
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