Are these emergency markers created and maintained by the Puffing Billy Railway?
If not they might be sharing a dataset with you that they don't have permission to share for this purpose? Adam On Fri, 26 Nov 2021 at 16:24, <osm.talk...@thorsten.engler.id.au> wrote: > Maybe just create a simple page on the wiki describing what you intent to > do along with a link to information about the received permission? Just to > make it easier to find in the future if there are any concerns. > > > > *From:* Andrew Harvey <andrew.harv...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Friday, 26 November 2021 13:46 > *To:* Kim Oldfield <o...@oldfield.wattle.id.au> > *Cc:* OSM-Au <talk-au@openstreetmap.org> > *Subject:* Re: [talk-au] Importing 200 emergency markers? > > > > That sounds fine to me, this email consulting with the community, > informing of your plan and what steps you've taken is enough in my opinion. > > > > I would ask if you could share more information about the permission you > obtained? So long as you have sufficient rights to submit the data under > the OSM contributor terms. > > > > On Fri, 26 Nov 2021 at 04:56, Kim Oldfield via Talk-au < > talk-au@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a list of 200 emergency marker locations along 22km of the > Puffing Billy Railway which were provided to me by the railway with > permission to include them in OSM. > > I've been reading through https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import - > most of which appears to be geared toward larger imports and using > publicly available data with various licenses. The data for my import is > not publicly available, and was provided to me when I asked to import it > into OSM. > > I've searched overpass-turbo and there are no > highway=emergency_access_points, name~"PBM", or ref~"PBM" near the list > of nodes I have to import. This indicates that none of the nodes are > already mapped. > > Based on the example file on > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM_file_format I've converted the > emergency marker list into xml, the start of which looks like: > > <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> > <osm version="0.6"> > <node id="-3" lat="-37.907468" lon="145.36039"> > <tag k="ref" v="PBM003"/> > <tag k="highway" v="emergency_access_point"/> > </node> > ... > > In JOSM I can import this file and merge the layer. I'm intending to > then upload this with appropriate an comment noting that the data was > provided by Puffing Billy Railway with permission to include it in OSM. > > I'm proposing to import this as a one off, single change set under my > existing OSM username. > > Is this a reasonable way to do this import? Is there anything else I > should do? > > Regards, > Kim > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au >
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