Re: [Talk-us] Clark County, Nevada Street Center Line data

2008-07-25 Thread Karl Newman
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Joseph Scanlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Ian Dees wrote: > > > make sure that the data is better than the data that was already > > imported from TIGER. > > The data is quite good and gets updated weekly. So... I don't want to > treat this

Re: [Talk-us] Clark County, Nevada Street Center Line data

2008-07-25 Thread Joseph Scanlan
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Ian Dees wrote: > make sure that the data is better than the data that was already > imported from TIGER. The data is quite good and gets updated weekly. So... I don't want to treat this as a one shot conversion. Updates should be part of my plan. I've downloaded the SC

Re: [Talk-us] intertwined ways in Austin TX

2008-07-25 Thread Alan Millar
> Does anyone with knowledge of the script have time to fix things in > Austin? Yes, I will take care of it. Thanks for finding it. - Alan ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tal

Re: [Talk-us] Shape to OSM conversion

2008-07-25 Thread Morgan Ress
Morning everyone, Thanks to Victor for bringing this back up. I've been trying to get Ian's script working, but the sad truth is I just don't know python. At some point, I'll try and learn it, but today's not that day. In my experience working with GIS data from a few sources even in one city, V

Re: [Talk-us] Shape to OSM conversion

2008-07-25 Thread Victor Snesarev
Ian, I haven't used JOSM much at all. Thanks for pointing out the fact that it can further massage data. I will look into it. One issue I forgot to mention is the coordinate transformation from State Plane projected coordinate system that's used by some (all?) local data to OSM's WGS84. Seems lik

Re: [Talk-us] Shape to OSM conversion

2008-07-25 Thread Ian Dees
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Victor Snesarev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > First of all, it seems that a generic Shapefile-to-OSM script is impossible > to write without writing a conversion application around it. > My thought on this is that there are two use cases: 1. Convert a relatively

[Talk-us] Shape to OSM conversion

2008-07-25 Thread Victor Snesarev
There've been several discussions on converting shapefile data form local governments to OSM. Like Ian, I've been hacking around with Python looking to convert local county data to OSM. So, I wanted to start a separate thread to discuss the process. Here it goes... First of all, it seems that a ge