+1 Nick, you've obviously put a lot of thought into this and I trust your judgement.
I think removing the boundaries sooner rather than later will make the remapping effort easier, and spreading the pain across a few blows now is better than waiting for a knockout hit on April 1st. Cheers, Ben On 02/02/2012, at 11:49, Ian Sergeant <inas66+...@gmail.com> wrote: > Okay, It sounds like your way further down this line of > thought/implementation than me. > > I'm happy to drop any objection, and keep my fingers crossed for a good > result. > > Looking forward to any data you can produce from your analysis. > > Thanks, > Ian. > > On 2 February 2012 10:46, Nick Hocking <nick.hock...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ian wrote > > "Do you want me to try this on a small area (like Canberra :-) to see if it > gives the desired results?" > > Yes - you could try but I've beaten you to it. A couple of weeks ago I > spent a lot of time and an awfull lot of downloading in JOSM to > find and destroy all the V1 boundaries. I think there is now only > the state boundary left (level 4) and I'm sure I busted that one as well > by mistake. > > It was tedious work and very easy to destroy good roads that are > very close to the boundaries. > > Having done this I could then start remapping (well after removing > some obscuring power lines and footpaths that I will have to > remap later). > > Out in the rural areas it can take up to 10 minutes just to download > and destroy a single long boundary. There are about 15,000 that > need removal. > > I do think that if people see a lot of red disappear and then know > that anything that is left that is red is worth working on, then maybe > remapping will start in earnest. > > Also mass deletion of v1 (virgin) boundaries will have the benefit > that if you see a boundary then you will know that it either is > containing some good info that may be reclaimable, or that some good > stuff is hiding underneath and may be salvagable. > > I will also endeavour to find a way to visualise or at least easily > locate those non v1 boundaries that have a road/river/railroad > or runway mixed in or have been glued to them so that we can easily > see if we can recover any clean information and maybe > completely remap with BIng landsat etc. > > I need to remove all v1 boundaries between here and Adelaide > and all of south eastern NSW. I'm not adept at bulk adds/deletes etc > and would really like the DWG to do it and get it right. Also this would > reduce load on the servers which I am giving a fair hammering, > looking at history etc.... > > Nick > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
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