(crossposting because this is relevant to both lists, sorry)
On Aug 19, 2011, at 2:12 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> If you do all this because there is practically no hope of there ever being a
> functioning volunteer OSM community in Somalia, and therefore we (or, more
> precisely, whoever wants
Schuyler,
Schuyler Erle wrote:
TL;DR: I imported almost 9,500 populated place names into OSM from a
2010 UN dataset, after removing duplicates with existing OSM data and
with the UN dataset itself. I would like to import the admin1 and
admin-2 boundaries from the UN as well, and I would apprecia
On 19 August 2011 19:49, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
> Unless the data origins from the same source as our OSM boundaries,
> the nodes probably won't overlap, so I'd leave this as a manual step.
(by that I mean I'd completely leave out those external borders from
the import, rather than deduplicate
On 19 August 2011 19:40, Schuyler Erle wrote:
> (removing the HOT list from this thread)
>
> On Aug 19, 2011, at 10:12 AM, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
>
>> As Toby said ogr2osm can create the multipolygons deduplicating ways
>> and nodes, but you will need additional logic for setting the right
>> a
(removing the HOT list from this thread)
On Aug 19, 2011, at 10:12 AM, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
> As Toby said ogr2osm can create the multipolygons deduplicating ways
> and nodes, but you will need additional logic for setting the right
> admin_level on the ways...
I was going to massage the da
On 19 August 2011 08:07, Schuyler Erle wrote:
> I would like to import the region and district boundaries from the OCHA COD
> next. Does anyone have any thoughts on how to go about this? If I just import
> the polygons as is, we'll wind up with a lot of redundant nodes and ways, I'm
> guessing.
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Schuyler Erle wrote:
>
> I would like to import the region and district boundaries from the OCHA COD
> next. Does anyone have any thoughts on how to go about this? If I just import
> the polygons as is, we'll wind up with a lot of redundant nodes and ways, I'm
>
Jaak Laineste writes:
> My friends have told me that they don't dare update my home town in
> OSM as there is already detailed import there (done by me).
I don't understand this. I live in an area with a lot of imports
(dot/massgis roads, massgis library/school/etc., massgis open space,
plus G
On 18.08.2011, at 19:22, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Jaak Laineste wrote:
>
>>> 2. This approach implies that external data sets are correct.
>>>
>>> Underlying this approach is an assumption that we can rely on other
>>> datasets accuracy. Sadly this is not the
