Foundation/Import Support Working Group

The Import Support Working Group is a group formed by the foundation to facilitate the import of data into OpenStreetMap. It is intended as a dating service between those who have found data, those who can convince people to give it to OSM and those who can do the technical work of importing it.

Contents 1 Membership 2 Communications 2.1 Conference call - 10 September 2010 2.2 Conference call - 22nd September 2010 2.3 Conference call - 8th October and 22nd Oct 2010 - Cancelled 2.4 Next conference call ?? 2.4.1 Ideas for discussion points 2.4.2 Dial in details

Membership

Membership of the working group is yet to be finalised. See attendee lists in the minutes of the following conference calls.

Communications

The working group communicates by conference call, email list and meetings.

An imports email list was established in July 2009 and anyone can read the archive and subscribe

Conference call - 10 September 2010

The first conference call took place on Thursday 10 September 2009. See /Minutes 2009-09-10. In summary the meeting was an initial introduction for interested participants. We made decisions on communications approach to be used (decided mainly the imports email list), and preliminary discussion approaches to follow for imports. Various imports are to be investigated.

Conference call - 22nd September 2010

The second conference call took place on Tuesday 22 September 2009. See /Minutes 2009-09-22. A few different people attending this time. Discussion around import tools. Merging data sets, compact contributions. Buildings and addresses. Effect of imports on community. Wiki documentation of tools and guidelines (Import pages)

Conference call - 8th October and 22nd Oct 2010 - Cancelled

No moderator appeared to start the call on both these occasions.

Next conference call ??

Next time we kind of need to make sure we can set up the conference call beforehand.

Whenever this happens it'll probably be at the same time:

• 11:30 AM Pacific time (California) (UTC-7)
• 2:30 PM Eastern time (New York) (UTC-4)
• 7:30 PM British summer time (UK) (UTC+1)
• 8:30 PM Central European summer time (Madrid, Paris, Berlin) (UTC+2)

Currently this conference call is still open for those interested in participating in the import support working group.

Ideas for discussion points

anyone?

--acrosscanadatrails 10:45, 22 October 2009 (UTC) Perhaps chat about the idea of separating the import process into 3 distinct steps.

• 1 Data conversion

      -using shp2osm.pl, shp2osm.py, shp-to-osm.jar, mp2osm .. or other programs to convert 

the source data to .osm format

• 2 Data Sharing

      -hosting these .osm files on a server somewhere so then everyone has access to it.
      -having a copy of the source files in the .zip package along with a readme.txt file 

and a changelog.txt file so people will know what the data is. (and a copy of the rules.txt files that where used for the conversion)

• 3 Data copying-in

Where users assign themselves specific parts of the data that they work on (claim it) and set status to 'planning' or 'in progress' so everyone knows.

I think that going this route, it makes it so that know 1 person is actually doing the entire import for a full country. Rather, local people are copiing in the data, and if they see errors they contact that person who is maintaining the conversion program, and submiting the errors to the local talk list (so everyone knows) and an update of that script can be made. Then the data can be re-converted, across the country... or locally.

(i wont be able to make it for the call in, unfortunately)

--Simone 11:01, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

• dealing with better new versions of data which already reside in to the DB. I.e. if get access to better data of, let's say landcover, how do we mix them?
• does it make sense to have a supporting web application to coordinate checking and validating data? I mean something like this http://osm.m0nty.de/ that was used for aerlial images for Bayern. Something to make contribution easier, something like the dead-end checker for the US.

Dial in details

The dial in numbers are normally as follows:

Participant Passcode: 727420

Phone Numbers:

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