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Hey, I am looking to upload a series of shapefiles to OSM. I do not want to manually digitize, for example, building footprints, but have a reliable source of building footprints to upload. Can anyone provide guidance on how to do so, or a place that has some guidance. thanks! |
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First of all, have a look at import on the wiki and read carefully the import guidelines. The guidelines exist to ensure that :
Once you understand that, one way to proceed is :
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One thing to mention when you describe your proposed import - how will you handle the merging of your data with data that's already there? Even if what's already there is of lower quality (in terms of building footprints, perhaps) it possibly has tags that aren't present in the data that you're uploading. How will you merge them together?
(06 Dec '13, 14:07)
SomeoneElse ♦
Shall be grateful if more detail steps can be shared. Or if the respondent has youtube video clip, that will be more helpful.
(23 Jun '21, 12:59)
Pete Khatsu
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@HaldimandGIS I think your question is replied in the following thread: https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/11603/importing-shapefile-and-saving-to-osm-with-potlatch2 |
To be sure to understand your question correctly: Can you explain your intentions with the upload? Do you want to share them with everybody - import into the (single) OSM database? So, you want to donate them?
Thanks for the advice all. As a background I work in rural municipal government and we are looking at supplementing OSM with our data to create a stronger spatial dataset in OSM. So in terms of legality, we have the authority to author the data without restrictions.