I agree. This isn't an easy problem to solve (assuming I'm seeing the right problem). I think you'd probably be best off to look at passing through the NIDs that geobase uses in to your internal database, and using that as a cross reference.
Dale -----Original Message----- From: Dave Hansen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2008 2:30 PM To: Sam Vekemans Cc: Corey Burger; Dale Atkin; Jason Reid; Michel Gilbert; Richard Weait; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Importing geobase data, learning from everyone On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 11:20 -0800, Sam Vekemans wrote: > (aside: What about converting rejected data to 'highway=road'?) > when new geobase data is available, the script would be the same, only > look at the road name and road class in close proximity, and add whats > missing. This is a very easy thing to say, but exceeding hard to accomplish in practice. We've thought about it extensively for the newer TIGER revisions, but haven't come up with anything that we're happy with. There are just plain too many corner cases to deal with. -- Dave _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
