Re: [Imports] City of Seattle imports

2014-02-05 Thread Glen Barnes
Serge, I think you missed the line: "More news to follow." >From what I read it is a first email to the list introducing the import and >saying what they are working on. Maybe I'm misreading but I read your response >as being a bit negative. It looks as though Jeff has discussed/is discussing

Re: [Imports] City of Seattle imports

2012-12-08 Thread andrzej zaborowski
Hi, On 6 December 2012 14:04, Paul Norman wrote: > Jeff Meyer @ > http://lists.osm.org/pipermail/imports/2012-December/001602.html >> > How will you handle object conflation? >> Manually and methodically. > > Although not a trivial problem there is work underway on code that will > handle the add

Re: [Imports] City of Seattle imports

2012-12-06 Thread Paul Norman
Apologies for the length, but there are quite a few points to "address," some of a specific nature and others more general. Because I'm replying to points across several messages and the formatting in this thread has become screwed up I'll be reformatting messages and re-ordering them so that t

Re: [Imports] City of Seattle imports

2012-12-04 Thread Glen Barnes
On 5/12/2012, at 1:21 PM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > >> How will you handle object conflation? Manually and methodically. > > Manually in that you will be adding all features by hand, you, yourself? I think there is a disconnect here between bulk imports and merging of bulk open data. T

Re: [Imports] City of Seattle imports

2012-12-04 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Jeff, I've read this mail over several times, and simply find it hard to parse. I don't know what email program you use, but standard email in-line reply is > for a quote and >> for a quote of a quote. The style you've adopted makes it hard for me to identify whose quoted and in reponse to what F

Re: [Imports] City of Seattle imports

2012-12-04 Thread Jeff Meyer
Hi Serge - thanks for the thorough reply - please see notes below: source tags are not really appropriate for indivdual elements, >> How do you identify when individual elements of the same way or node are derived from different sources? >> Also, what you are saying directly contradicts the inform

Re: [Imports] City of Seattle imports

2012-12-03 Thread Robert Coup
Hi Jeff, On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Jeff Meyer wrote: > Data has been converted from shape to osm using pnorman's ogr2osm python > scripts and some translation instructions Cliff has put together. > > At the meeting, we will discuss concerns about the import, methods of > curating the data,

Re: [Imports] City of Seattle imports

2012-12-03 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Jeff Meyer wrote: > All - > > The city of Seattle has recently granted permission to use data found at > data.seattle.gov in OpenStreetMap. > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors#City_of_Seattle.2C_Washington > > A group of Seattle OSM'ers (led by Cliff S

[Imports] City of Seattle imports

2012-12-03 Thread Jeff Meyer
All - The city of Seattle has recently granted permission to use data found at data.seattle.gov in OpenStreetMap. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors#City_of_Seattle.2C_Washington A group of Seattle OSM'ers (led by Cliff Snow) are getting together to discuss the methods for importing