Hello mappers, I am proposing to import a roads dataset in and around, sourced from George Washington University.
Documentation
This is the wiki page for my import:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Informal_Roads
Sample data download is available here:
License
I have checked that this data is compatible with the ODbL.
This data is distributed under CC-PDDC.
Abstract
This project aims to import mostly informal roads used by indigenous peoples in the Irkutsk Oblast, Russia area. Very little roads currently exist in OSM for this area. These data were created as part of a community-engaged research project out of the George Washington University.
The vector road data were created as shapefiles using ArcGIS Pro using winter satellite images (2014-2020) from Maxar.
In total the data are about 29.4MB in size. Using ArcGIS Pro and QGIS the data were edited and validated for topological and attribute accuracy. Any existing OSM data in this dataset were removed and the existing attributes were mapped to OSM tags as noted in the import wiki above. JOSM, will be used to manually parse and import the data to OSM.