I think it would be great to get it all in as soon as possible. I do see a few limiting factors, though:
* In some places, a lot of work has been done manually entering water features. While I expect the NHD data is generally better, we have the tough issue of respecting other people's work (and not duplicating things in the database) * The upload speed seems to be a limiting factor - it is taking me some 70-80 hours to upload the one basis with bulk_upload.pl. I am not sure how many basins there are in the country, but it seems as though it could take a year if it were all done sequentially. * The scripts I used to convert the shapefiles to OSM only supported the features I found in this one basin. They should be easy to extend, (or someone else may have better ones), but they would need to be tested. Theodore Ian Dees wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Theodore Book <tb...@libero.it > <mailto:tb...@libero.it>> wrote: > > If you haven't been following the wiki page, I have been doing some work > on the NHD dataset, and feel that I have gotten a decent OSM conversion > of the Etowah river watershed (north and northwest of Atlanta). I am > going ahead and uploading that basin. If you are interested in the > conversion, it would be great if you could take a look at it and give me > any feedback you may have. Thanks. > > > Excellent work! I think the next step is to list all of the subbasins > and start converting/importing. > > What is everyone's opinion on waiting for the API 0.6 upgrade? I'll bet > we could sneak in a complete import before... > > Also, do we want to have individuals make requests for data via the NHD > website or should I make another DVD-data-dump request to the NHD folks > and import the whole thing at once? > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
