Dave Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 11:33 -0700, Alan Brown wrote: >> > Then, decide how if/when it is appropriate to write over the old >> TIGER >> > stuff with new. Or, to merge it somehow. >> >> Be very, very careful here. >> >> Conflation is a difficult thing. I used to work at Tele Atlas, and >> there was a major project to conflate Tele Atlas North American data >> and GDT data (a company they just acquired). They had at least a >> hundred people committed full time to completing the task in a year (I >> don't know the exact number), with tens of millions in funding - and >> they failed in a big way. The head of the North American division got >> axed as a result. > > It's not a difficult thing if nothing has been changed since the last > import. My goal for now is simply to overwrite the things that haven't > been updated by people since the last time I touched them.
A good start would certainly be if the data was converted to OSM format and made available somwhere for people to check and compare with existing OSM data. Matthias _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
