I am almost finished with Corozal West and Los Rios. I have done a lot of Balboa and Balboa Heights. Al of these using tracks and my own governments maps in AutoCAD.
I selected 1600 m x 1200 m areas in my UTM map. I converted them to png plotting them; and then, I opened the files in JOSM using picklayer plugin. I used the tracks that I made with my personal Garmin Legend Etrex.
I downloaded the tracks from my GPS with Gebabbel. These files were uploaded to OSM. So, with my tracks and others' track I "georeferenced" my png drawings.
Then, with everything set up, I draw streets and buildings.
Second stage
My good friends in Surveys Branch provided me with ESRI shape files made by our government agency. I converted these files to gpx using
http://mygeodata.eu/apps/converter/main_EN.html?dataType=vector
I open the gpx files in JOSM, converted them to OSM files, clean the area and upload them to OSM.
This way I have already finished with Pedro Miguel and surrounding areas.
I have plans to finished all roads around my work areas, continue with the most significant buildings and finished with the coast lines.
Umræða
Athugasemd eftir JohnSmith sett inn 19. júní 2010 kl. 04:00
Why didn't you just use the slippymap plugin?
Athugasemd eftir balrog-kun sett inn 20. júní 2010 kl. 02:22
I think there are better ways to deal with AutoCAD and shapefiles, there are customizable converters to go directly from .shp or .dxf to .osm, one of these converters you can find in svn.openstreetmap.org called ogr2osm.
Make sure the *owner* of the data has approved the usage under the CC-By-SA license.
Cheers
Athugasemd eftir balrog-kun sett inn 20. júní 2010 kl. 02:24
Also while I'm here, please always include changeset comments :) They would be really really useful.
Athugasemd eftir JohnSmith sett inn 22. júní 2010 kl. 02:21
@balrog-kun with the upcoming license change to ODBL it would be better to make sure the data is CC-by, not just CC-by-SA so it will survive the change over.