> Why do people still insist on converting, and directly importing?
>
> It makes more sence to 1) Convert the file
> 2) make the .osm files available
> 3) tell the community about it, so others can take a look before the
> most local people to the data actually 'copy it in' to osm.
I completely a
With help from Ian Dees, I have the code running. I updated the wiki
with the link to the latest jar file. Now I'm working on massaging the
data. Thanks for the help.
- Alan
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Kevin,
While Sam isn`t president, he is bringing up an important point.
I've just come back from SoTM and so much of what was discussed was
due to well-intention imports and the problems they cause.
No one is saying imports shouldn't happen, but that when they do
happen, they need to be done wit
lol
The page about Guidelines is still rather long and a little ambiguous.
It's on my list to try to make it a little more clear. But that
wont be after the license change.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines#Use_a_dedicate
I have a bad memory but I don't seem to remember voting you in as OSM
president.
I used this tool to help import some OS waterway data for my local area
which there is no way I could survey on foot. Importing data is not always a
bad thing and can add a lot of richness to the map especially in rur
Why do people still insist on converting, and directly importing?
It makes more sence to 1) Convert the file
2) make the .osm files available
3) tell the community about it, so others can take a look before the
most local people to the data actually 'copy it in' to osm.
Every effort should be mad
I recently used v0.7.1 on Ubuntu 10.04 and it worked great.
Kevin
On 11 July 2010 20:58, Ian Dees wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Alan Millar wrote:
>
>> I'm interested in importing NHD for my area. I came across this
>> message:
>>
>> > The shp-to-osm Java app I wrote has a more
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Alan Millar wrote:
> I'm interested in importing NHD for my area. I came across this
> message:
>
> > The shp-to-osm Java app I wrote has a more complete set of NHD
> > conversion rules
>
> > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Shp-to-osm.jar
>
> But I can't seem
I'm interested in importing NHD for my area. I came across this
message:
> The shp-to-osm Java app I wrote has a more complete set of NHD
> conversion rules
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Shp-to-osm.jar
But I can't seem to get it to work. The wiki instructions appear out-of-date.
The z
