Re: [Talk-us] NHD import and conversion - sample data

2011-04-28 Thread Ian Dees
Looks decent. I'm surprised they don't have MassGIS's hydrography data ... this NHD is quite low res and offset compared to what they have. The conversion seems OK though. On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Ben Supnik wrote: > Hi Y'all, > > This is one sub-basin (01090001 - go Sox :-), isolated f

[Talk-us] NHD import and conversion - sample data

2011-04-28 Thread Ben Supnik
Hi Y'all, This is one sub-basin (01090001 - go Sox :-), isolated from the latest NHD data, then converted via the latest rule set off of the wiki (with shapefile key capitalizations fixed). http://dev.x-plane.com/download/01090001.zip If anyone has done NHD imports before, please take a quic

Re: [Talk-us] NHD data import question

2011-04-28 Thread Alan Millar
Well, it's been a while since I worked on it, so I can't recall exactly.  But as I recall, there were things like, say, a small pond made up of  a hundred nodes when 20 or so would suffice.  Or pretty straight lines with nodes at closely spaced intervals, where all but the first and last were co

Re: [Talk-us] NHD data import question

2011-04-28 Thread Ben Supnik
Hi Y'all, I have a command line tool that copies subsets of shapefiles based on a polygonal region of another shapefile...you feed it the key/value pair of a HUC_8 from the master sub-basin file and one or more* NHD shapefiles and it produces an extract. I hit one tricky case while looking a

Re: [Talk-us] NHD data import question

2011-04-28 Thread Ben Supnik
Hi Y'all, What qualifies as too many nodes? Do we have metrics for this? I can apply some kind of simplification if we can quantify what we want... cheers ben On 4/28/11 4:34 PM, Alan Millar wrote: I've been checking some of the imported data and my general feel is that it is overdigitized

Re: [Talk-us] NHD data import question

2011-04-28 Thread Alan Millar
>I've been checking some of the imported data and my general feel is that it is >overdigitized.  I don't know if medium versus high reflects just the quality >or >the amount of digitization.  That would be something to check.  One could also >just run some sort of simplification algorithm on al

Re: [Talk-us] NHD data import question

2011-04-28 Thread Ben Supnik
Hi James, I've been checking some of the imported data and my general feel is that it is overdigitized. I don't know if medium versus high reflects just the quality or the amount of digitization. That would be something to check. One could also just run some sort of simplification algorithm o

Re: [Talk-us] NHD data import question

2011-04-28 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 8:08 AM, James Umbanhowar wrote: > On Thursday 28 April 2011 08:53:56 Ben Supnik wrote: > > Hi Ian, > > > > I should be able to convert the NHD data sometime in the next week or > > so. Also, if/when you want the original data, let me know. > > > > For the conversion, do w

Re: [Talk-us] NHD data import question

2011-04-28 Thread James Umbanhowar
On Thursday 28 April 2011 08:53:56 Ben Supnik wrote: > Hi Ian, > > I should be able to convert the NHD data sometime in the next week or > so. Also, if/when you want the original data, let me know. > > For the conversion, do we want medium or high resolution? > > Re: the import status map, I do

Re: [Talk-us] NHD data import question

2011-04-28 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Ben Supnik wrote: > Hi Ian, > > I should be able to convert the NHD data sometime in the next week or so. > Also, if/when you want the original data, let me know. > > For the conversion, do we want medium or high resolution? > We'll want high resolution. > > R

Re: [Talk-us] NHD data import question

2011-04-28 Thread Ben Supnik
Hi Ian, I should be able to convert the NHD data sometime in the next week or so. Also, if/when you want the original data, let me know. For the conversion, do we want medium or high resolution? Re: the import status map, I don't know how to make an actual map from themshort of simply p

Re: [Talk-us] NHD data import question

2011-04-28 Thread Ian Dees
Yep: if you have the ability and time to cut the national dataset into subbasins I'll give you an SFTP to upload them to and I'll start converting them to OSM. >From there we could add links to the pre-converted subbasin OSM bundles to the wiki pages. Bonus points for converting the subbasin boun

Re: [Talk-us] NHD data import question

2011-04-28 Thread Ben Supnik
Hi Y'all, So let me see if I can summarize where we are so far... - I could cut the NHD data down to sub-basins. It would not be a perfect cutting (e.g. each sub-basin might need a little bit of data "hanging off" since the raw data isn't cut on sub-basin boundaries) but it would be pretty cl