Shaun it's simply not that clear cut, there are plenty of people in the US who would never have gotten involved without TIGER. I met one yesterday and it was the first thing he said.
On Dec 4, 2009, at 5:12 PM, Shaun McDonald wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us Yours &c. Steve _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
