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Anyone done an import from their local county's open data site? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.world to c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml

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My county has an open data site that hosts several datasets including building footprint, addresses, parks, and even some recent imagery. There aren't very many active mappers in my area, so this would be a great help. Is there a way I can go through the proper channels to incorporate this data? Anyone have experience in doing so? I know how to do it technically, but I don't know much about the actual process and best practices.

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[–] testman@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I am interested in doing that. But from what I am told by someone from my country who is a bit deeper into OSM stuff than I am, there are many problems that prevent you from just git push --force the whole government set into the OSM. Stuff like overlapping objects.
There a osmwiki article specifically for government data: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Importing_Government_Data

[–] mondoman712@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

There's quite a bit of info on the wiki https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines