Re: [Talk-us] GIS state data

2008-11-02 Thread Russ Nelson
Nathan Mixter writes: > Has anyone had any experience with importing state GIS data? Ugh, I wish! New York State uses this weird "GIS Repository" thing. Data checks in and it never checks out. Members of the repository (nonprofit and municipal only -- all others stay home) agree to share data w

Re: [Talk-us] GIS state data

2008-11-02 Thread Dale Puch
I have done some work on converting state and county shp data. While the conversion takes a little work to setup. I have NOT however gotten anywhere with merging that data into the OSM set. I could open it in josm and could manually try merging a whole county in 1 shot. BUT josm with that much

[Talk-us] GIS state data

2008-11-02 Thread Nathan Mixter
Has anyone had any experience with importing state GIS data? Looks like there is some good information the California state gis site at http://gis.ca.gov/BrowseCatalog.epl and also at the Santa Cruz County gis site at http://gis.co.santa-cruz.ca.us/. It looks like the state data formats are