Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Import of Lakes from water.usgs.gov

2009-12-12 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Well, I found this asbestos dump near my hometown in Millington NJ and that was not there before so if it was imported, where is it? mike On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Reiser, John J. wrote: > FYI, Georgia and New Jersey have land use/land cover data that has been > bulk uploaded. With any

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Import of Lakes from water.usgs.gov

2009-12-12 Thread Reiser, John J.
FYI, Georgia and New Jersey have land use/land cover data that has been bulk uploaded. With any bulk uploads, please make sure that the data is appropriate for the area and does not overlap existing data within an area. State level data is often better (not always, but often) than what is in some

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Import of Lakes from water.usgs.gov

2009-12-12 Thread Ian Dees
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:15 PM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com < jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > For the US, I found also a national name register, like the GNS database. > > This has been imported already. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@o

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Import of Lakes from water.usgs.gov

2009-12-12 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 6:35 PM, David Fawcett wrote: > This is another data set that will be evolving over time and for it to > be of value, there will need to be a way to replace line segments in > some sort of automated way.  It the import is a one-shot deal, please > don't import the NHD for m

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Import of Lakes from water.usgs.gov

2009-12-12 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Hi all, If you want to revert my edits for the EPA data feel free. mike ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Import of Lakes from water.usgs.gov

2009-12-12 Thread David Fawcett
(I thought that I would split my answers on EPA and NHD). I know that there is already a coordinated effort on importing NHD. Please don't upload NHD data for an area that you are not familiar with. I am familiar with the NHD data in our area and I can tell you that it is still receiving a large

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Import of Lakes from water.usgs.gov

2009-12-12 Thread David Fawcett
I appreciate your enthusiasm for getting environmental data into OSM. I think that it can have value, but only if it is done carefully and with maintenance in mind. The spatial accuracy of the EPA data that you uploaded is not very good. I have to say that even in mixed-case, it really subtracts

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Import of Lakes from water.usgs.gov

2009-12-12 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 11:19 AM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: > I agree completely. What I did with my splitter script is to create > one file per Item. Large lakes and things can be processed that way, I > just sorted the resulting files and loaded the biggest one into josm. > A splitti

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Import of Lakes from water.usgs.gov

2009-12-12 Thread Ian Dees
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 9:29 AM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com < jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 4:22 PM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com > wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Ian Dees wrote: > > >> The current NHD either includes these updates or is high

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Import of Lakes from water.usgs.gov

2009-12-12 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Kate wrote: > On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Ian Dees wrote: >> >> The current NHD either includes these updates or is higher quality than this >> historical stuff that the USGS has. I would recommend working on importing >> the NHD rather than other datasets.

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Import of Lakes from water.usgs.gov

2009-12-12 Thread Kate
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Ian Dees wrote: > > The current NHD either includes these updates or is higher quality than this > historical stuff that the USGS has. I would recommend working on importing > the NHD rather than other datasets. > > Also, lakes should not have a natural=coastline

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Import of Lakes from water.usgs.gov

2009-12-12 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 4:22 PM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: > On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Ian Dees wrote: >> The current NHD either includes these updates or is higher quality than this >> historical stuff that the USGS has. I would recommend working on importing >> the NHD rathe

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Import of Lakes from water.usgs.gov

2009-12-12 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Ian Dees wrote: > On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 8:19 AM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com > wrote: >> >> Instead of importing lots of data, I have imported only one lake for >> your review and approval. >> >> I have documented it here : >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/use

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Import of Lakes from water.usgs.gov

2009-12-12 Thread Ian Dees
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 8:19 AM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com < jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Instead of importing lots of data, I have imported only one lake for > your review and approval. > > I have documented it here : > http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/h4ck3rm1k3/diary/8927 > >