As mentioned previously on talk-us, I made contact with the Riley county GIS department and got access to their data. Since then I have been analyzing and working with the data. I believe I am nearing a point at which I can proceed with some imports based on this data. There are a few different data sets, each of which will be handled individually. The biggest one is an address import of about 20,000 points. I don't have many fellow mappers around here but I have brought it up with a few occasional users and they do not have a problem with this. As stated on the wiki page, I am hoping to use the church data to involve some of them in the process.
I have documented the different data sets, the conversion files and posted .osm files for review on the following wiki page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Kansas/Riley_County As noted on that page, the address import still needs more processing. In particular there are two special cases that I'm not quite sure what to do with For now I have marked them with FIXME tags in the .osm file. One is apartments. Each apartment has its own point in the county data. They are spaced apart from each other somewhat arbitrarily. My current thought is to discard the apartment number and merge the nodes down to a single node per unique addr:housenumber value. I would place this node either at the building center or at a stairwell if it can be identified. This is how I mapped my own apartment complex some time ago as can be seen here: http://osm.org/go/T59wjkyXy-- The other special case is trailer parks. Two of the biggest ones have one full address point in the middle of the park. Then on each unit they have a point with nothing but the lot number. I'm not actually sure how residents in these parks write their mailing address so I'm not quite sure how to handle it in this data. Some of the smaller parks are marked similarly to apartments with duplicated housenumbers and then a lot number added on. I may just exclude the trailer parks for a first import and come back to them later. I plan on doing the county, state and park boundaries in the next few days. The addresses will likely take a few more days to fix up so that one might wait until after Christmas. Comments welcome. Toby _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
