I have heard that all Brazilian (federal, stately and municipally) survey and statistical data is by law in the public domain. I havn't seen this law, but are willing to put it to the test.

The Brazilian community have already started on a process of importing IBGE data. This is the large data set from the Brazilian Geographical and Statistical Institute. Some have also contacted a few municipals to get survey data files donated to prepare imports of municipals.

I will of corse try to get the same, will start with Guarapari, and after that take a few other municipals where I feel I do the mapping. But I have a bigger idea. Something that can turn into a extremely huge import.

I would like to get my hands on the hydrographic surveys done by the Brazilian navy devition for hydrographic survey. If I can get this, than all navigational bodies of water in Brazil can be imported, along with all ports, lighthouses, buoys, coastline, beaches, water depths, seabed materials, and much much more.

First step will be to get the survey datas, that might take quite some time as I will need to find out where to send the requests.
Next step will be to analize the data to find out how I can get the possition data out of it, and how things are coded.
Than all possitions needs to be converted to WGS84.
Than I need to make import files in OSM format based upon the various datas, and split into chunks.
Than each chunk of each import type must be cleaned in order to remove all duplicates.
When that is done, I can run it through bulk_import.pl or some other bulk import program.

I hope that some of the cleaning can be done in some sort of graphical interface, such as JOSM.

If somebody have experinces, scripts, tools, or hints that can help me along, feel free to leave them here, or contact me in a private message.