Why oh why oh why do some people insist on wasting time trying to import loads of data?
Please take a read of http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/shine/archives/2009/11/10/the-pottery-club/ Please go out and map what's out on the ground, as usually imported data is of a rather low standard or the import isn't done right, and it's really, really hard to do an import correctly. On 5 Dec 2009, at 00:00, Scott Atwood wrote: > The Hawaii state government has a sizable repository of GIS data that could > be useful to import into OSM: http://hawaii.gov/dbedt/gis/. I have > contacted a manager in the GIS department by telephone and verified that this > GIS data is in the public domain, and therefore available for import into OSM. > > Hawaii has pretty good road coverage from a import of 2007 TIGER data on > O'ahu, and an ongoing import of 2009 TIGER data for the remaining islands, so > the roads data provided by the GIS department probably doesn't need to be > considered. But there is a lot of other data available that isn't > currently in OSM, such as: > > * Streams, waterfalls, dams, and canals (Does the National Hydrography > Dataset cover Hawaii?) > * Coral reefs > * Offshore islets > * Mile markers Not so sure these belong in OSM. > * Trails > * Parks > * Schools Um haven't these already been imported? Not just current ones, but historic ones too, and schools that opened 4 years ago aren't in there? > * Hotels > * Assorted administrative boundaries You'll probably find that most of these are in there already. > * Land use categorization. > * etc. > > There has been relatively little mapping activity in Hawaii outside of O'ahu, > so these data sets are unlikely to conflict with much existing work on the > neighbor islands. More careful consideration would have to be given for data > imports for O'ahu. > Do some publicity, run some mapping parties. The reason OSM has worked in Germany is due to plenty of publicity. Shaun > I have not made any investigation into the accuracy of any of this data yet, > and honestly, I'm not sure what sort of tools or techniques would be useful > for evaluating the accuracy. > > -Scott > > > -- > Scott Atwood > > The hill isn't in the way, it is the way. > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
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