Re: [Imports] Imports Digest, Vol 13, Issue 2

2010-07-06 Thread Reiser, John J.
It absolutely needs more work. It downloads OSM data by defined extent quite well. Getting edits on retrieved data back into OSM is another issue. I think it's going to be a good tool for those that are familiar with Arc but just starting out with OSM. I think that the download and symbolize mo

Re: [Imports] Imports Digest, Vol 13, Issue 2

2010-07-06 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Reiser, John J. wrote: > Having it as an ArcToolbox function is even better, because I know most > people I've talked to want to download just a small area and were > unimpressed with the whole state snapshots provided by CloudMade. > > What does ArcToolbox functio

Re: [Imports] Imports Digest, Vol 13, Issue 2

2010-07-06 Thread Reiser, John J.
The ArcToolbox tool downloads the data as XML and then converts it into point, line and polygon feature classes within a geodatabase. It also performs an additional step by providing some elementary symbology for the downloaded elements. Doing the conversion from XML and coming up with appropria