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.
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 --forcethe 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