Ian, tell you what - if you put the code up somewhere, I'll write the how-to page for the wiki.
My sense is that there are a lot of US cities and metro areas with better data then tiger (like here in Pittsburgh/Allegheny County, Pa), and that many, if not most, would make it available for OSM. Thanks, -Morgan Ian Dees wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 1:57 AM, SteveC <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > Also, any other data in the US that fits that description please let > me know about and we can possibly help get it imported. > > > Steve, take a peek at my talk page on the wiki [1], I've got a list of > potential data sources to import into OSM. All of these are public > domain last I checked. > > I'm slowly working through the National Hydrography Dataset right now. > Unfortunately, work and the beautiful weather is getting in the way. > > Also, I will try and upload a generic shp -> osm converter today that > uses python to pull out the nodes and ways of a shapefile and tag the > ways based on the metadata offered in the shapefile. Keep your eye out > for that. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-us _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-us