to: osm-talk,imports, talk-ha, talk-do, others?
subject: manual LSIB import to repair redaction damage.
Hi,
I've noticed that international borders all over Central America and the Caribbean were damaged by the redaction1. I'm proposing a limited, manual import of USAID's LSIB data2. Data is owned and maintained by the US Federral Gov't so it is public domain (and many of existing borders look like they were originally imported from US Census Bureau or CIA data)
Though I haven't written it yet, the ogr2osm translation funciton would probably only include admin_level= and boundary=administrative tags - there's no other relevant attributes in the source data. Once in josm I plan on manually copying the way segments from the import layer into an active editing layer and manually connect imported segments to exising ways + include them in the relevant relations I've included a sample osm file here[3] that you can rview. Let me know what you think about the import and what i'm missing. thanks,
[3]: (working on this now)