Postmortem of Naturvårdsverkets dataimport to Openstreetmap
Posted by Atakua on 9 February 2020 in English. Last updated on 17 February 2020.This post is originally published at my personal page, but I assume here more people might read it. Some formatting may be off as I converted it from HTML.
Around March 2019 I started work to import a large chunk of open data into Openstreetmap. Specifically, to improve the landcover coverage of Sweden. Mostly it concerned areas and features of forest, farmland, wetland, and highland marshes.
This post continues and somewhat concludes the series of thoughts I’ve documented earlier in 2019:
The import plan documents a lot of technical details. I maintained it to reflect the high level overview of the project throughout its life.
Why bother
My motivation behind the project was that I was tired to trace forests by hand. My understanding is that it would take a million of hours to finish this work by using manual labor alone. I, being lazy, always look for ways to automate it and/or integrate someone else’s already finished work.
And there is a lot of work to integrate. Here’s how the map looked like before the start of the project: