On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 21:10 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is the Census Bureau going to continue to make regular (ie. annual or > semi-annual) data releases of street centerline data, or does the 2007 > TIGER/Line Shapefile release represent the end of the project?
I can't imagine this will be their last release. I'm sure they'll continuei > If they plan on releasing incremental updates, is there an OSM plan in > place for pulling from their updated information each time they > release? or was the 2006 data intended to be a baseline that would > then be improved and maintained only by OSM users? It was a real pain to import one static data set onto a blank slate. I can't even imagine trying to: 1. Read the new features 2. Find out what those were mapped as in 2006 when we pulled the TIGER data 3. Figure out where those features went in OSM 4. Figure out if those features have been updated 5. Which copy is better 6. Update those features in a safe manner and at a speed that would allow us to complete by the time the next data set is out. Seriously, I always saw TIGER as a one-time thing. If someone is really interested in doing this, I don't want to stop them. But, as the dude who did a pretty big chunk of the work for the original import, I can say that I don't really even have the time to begin on this one. :) What we might be able to do is find holes in the original data and see if those holes have been filled in. That might be a reasonably simple place to start if someone is interested. -- Dave _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-us
