Re: [Talk-us] US Hydrographic Data

2008-07-14 Thread Mark Gray
Hello, I am a new subscriber to this list. I live in the Atlanta, GA area. I have been adding to OSM a little in my spare time but now it seems to be getting closer to my work life. I have worked a bit on adding OSM as a background layer to our GIS, but today I found this mailing list with this

Re: [Talk-us] US Hydrographic Data

2008-07-14 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Mark Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am a new subscriber to this list. I live in the Atlanta, GA area. I have been adding to OSM a little in my spare time but now it seems to be getting closer to my work life. I have worked a bit on adding OSM as a

Re: [Talk-us] US Hydrographic Data

2008-07-14 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Mark Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to speak up before finding that the thread was older than I realized. I have now gone back and found the whole conversation that has been taking place. I wasn't trying to be mean :). Just making sure you saw it. It

Re: [Talk-us] US Hydrographic Data

2008-06-25 Thread Matthew Perry
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 8:48 PM, yellowbkpk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just about done importing the NHD Data into a PostGIS database and can begin exporting to OSM format. Is there anyone out there that has already imported NHD data or drawn water bodies/rivers themselves that would want me

Re: [Talk-us] US Hydrographic Data

2008-05-07 Thread Ian Dees
I am the proud recipient of 42GB worth of hydrology data. It appears that the data is in several .tar.gz files. I am working on unpackaging the data right now. I imagine the next step would be to extract the subbasins from the overall dataset, make sure the NHD - OSM script works as we want it,

Re: [Talk-us] US Hydrographic Data

2008-05-07 Thread Dave Hansen
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 10:51 -0500, Ian Dees wrote: I was going to modify Matthew's script here: http://perrygeo.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/gis-bin/nhd_to_osm.py to try and fix the issues that he described in the header: - support holes in water bodies (islands) - tag OSM data with all

Re: [Talk-us] US Hydrographic Data

2008-05-02 Thread Ian Dees
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is starting to show the data I uploaded yesterday: http://tah.openstreetmap.org/Browse/?x=1971y=2935z=13layer=tile It looks like the water bodies aren't given name tags. On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Ian Dees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm 80 minutes away from finishing an

Re: [Talk-us] US Hydrographic Data

2008-05-02 Thread Matthew Perry
Ian, When I zoom in, some of the rivers are labeled, others aren't. This could just be a rendering issue. Do the names show up in the OSM file? Or perhaps the original NHD data is simply missing names for those features? - matt On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 6:46 AM, Ian Dees [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Talk-us] US Hydrographic Data

2008-05-01 Thread Dave Hansen
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 10:17 -0700, Karl Newman wrote: That would be awesome. Maybe we could rip out the TIGER hydrographic features and replace them with the NHD stuff. Maybe coastlines, too? I guess we'd have to be careful about duplicating/overwriting people's work, though. Uh. There are