On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:08:59AM -0500, Rev. Theodore Book wrote: > I used a modified version of your MassGIS script - which did result in > some big ways. I think we would need to find a faster way of uploading > if we wanted to complete the whole country in a reasonable length of time.
Which MassGIS script? mgis_to_osm, or the new polyshp2osm? The latter is something I would recommend much more for anyone writing code now... mgis_to_osm has some significantly convoluted stuff in it, in my reading of it... -- Chris > Christopher Schmidt wrote: > >On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:37:05AM -0500, Theodore Book wrote: > > > >>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. > >> > > > >If you're not uploading from dev.openstreetmap.org, there's probably a > >significant speedbump to be gained from doing so. Additionally, once the > >0.6 API is up, we can group a lot of changes into changesets: a *huge* > >chunk of the time spent when uploading remotely is spent on round trip > >to the server, nothing else. > > > > > >>* 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. > >> > > > >What script did you use for doing the polygons themselves? Did i t > >support splitting of large polygons into smaller ways? > > > >Regards, > > -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
