[Talk-us] Importing Virginia road centerlines

2011-02-21 Thread Josh Doe
I've been in contact with VITA, the agency responsible for GIS for the state of Virginia, USA. They are interested in OSM utilizing their road centerline data. VITA coordinates with all the localities in Virginia to obtain this information, though most of it is sourced from the Virginia Base Mappin

Re: [Talk-us] Importing Virginia road centerlines

2011-02-21 Thread Mike N
I'm totally new to importing, so I first wanted to see if anyone else is interested in this project, though I am willing to take the time to learn the process myself. Is the process used for importing the Canadian database [1] the best method for doing this? The process for the Canadian databa

Re: [Talk-us] Importing Virginia road centerlines

2011-02-21 Thread Peter Budny
Josh, this sounds great! Unfortunately, you're headed in to really new territory. As far as I can tell, OSM doesn't have any methods in place for merging data in any meaningful sense, which sounds like what you need to do. (In other words, "Take X, Y and Z from this data, and Q and P from this d

Re: [Talk-us] Importing Virginia road centerlines

2011-02-21 Thread Josh Doe
I absolutely agree about preserving user contributions. For any given segment in the Virginia RCL Shapefile, there are any number of ways in OSM that make up that segment, with varying attributes. The reverse is possible as well. Merging this won't be easy by any means. However there's no reason we

Re: [Talk-us] Importing Virginia road centerlines

2011-02-21 Thread Katie Filbert
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Josh Doe wrote: > I absolutely agree about preserving user contributions. For any given > segment in the Virginia RCL Shapefile, there are any number of ways in > OSM that make up that segment, with varying attributes. The reverse is > possible as well. Merging th

Re: [Talk-us] Importing Virginia road centerlines

2011-02-21 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Peter Budny wrote: > Josh, this sounds great!  Unfortunately, you're headed in to really new > territory.  As far as I can tell, OSM doesn't have any methods in place > for merging data in any meaningful sense, which sounds like what you > need to do.  (In other w

Re: [Talk-us] Importing Virginia road centerlines

2011-02-21 Thread Peter Budny
Richard Weait writes: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Peter Budny wrote: >> Josh, this sounds great!  Unfortunately, you're headed in to really new >> territory.  As far as I can tell, OSM doesn't have any methods in place >> for merging data in any meaningful sense, which sounds like what y