Re: [Talk-us] Import discussions

2012-06-11 Thread the Old Topo Depot
The OSM UK wiki has a priorities page ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_Mapping_Priorities); since a similarly named page does not exist for the US ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/US_Mapping_Priorities), we should create one and begin populating it. Best, On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 8:15 A

Re: [Talk-us] Import discussions

2012-06-11 Thread Mike N
On 6/11/2012 10:54 AM, Alan Mintz wrote: Personally, I wish that all those that want to import building outlines would first think about the existing street network (this, after all, being OpenSTREETMap). So much of the US is still unedited TIGER 2005 data - mis-aligned, poorly connected, stale-n

[Talk-us] Import discussions

2012-06-11 Thread Alan Mintz
There have been several threads about import guidelines and building imports lately. Still, nobody is ever concerned with the data size and performance issues that will surely be caused by expanded imports of building and lot outlines (as discussed recently for Bakersfield, California). Shouldn