[Talk-GB] OS VectorMap water feature import

2011-12-11 Thread Borbus
First of all, when I say import I mean a manual import: reprojection of OS shapefiles, conversion to OSM data and careful processing in JOSM before uploading. I'd really like to get all the water features from OS into OSM. It's very useful data and also makes maps prettier. It's quite a

Re: [Talk-GB] OS VectorMap water feature import

2011-12-11 Thread Chris Hill
On 11/12/11 11:26, Borbus wrote: First of all, when I say import I mean a manual import: reprojection of OS shapefiles, conversion to OSM data and careful processing in JOSM before uploading. I'd really like to get all the water features from OS into OSM. It's very useful data and also makes

Re: [Talk-GB] OS VectorMap water feature import

2011-12-11 Thread Borbus
On 11/12/11 13:08, Chris Hill wrote: As always, I would say use the OS data for areas you know. So when you say 'all water features from OS' I hope you mean in an area you know and not the whole of Great Britain. No I don't mean the whole of GB. I would only do my own county. But I don't

Re: [Talk-GB] OS VectorMap water feature import

2011-12-11 Thread Tim François
I've done the same as Craig: exported only the features I was interested in using QGIS, before using JOSM to tidy it up. I did Chew Valley Lake and the River Chew running into it from the Avon at Keynsham. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.3356781005859lon=-2.61131286621094zoom=13 The entire

Re: [Talk-GB] OS VectorMap water feature import

2011-12-11 Thread Graham Jones
On 11 December 2011 18:46, Tim François sk1pp...@yahoo.co.uk The entire process took a long, long time (we're talking many hours), as the OS data is all fragmented and needs joining up. This is one where it is certainly possible to import the data, but to do it manually is going to be a huge