Josh, I like Katie's idea of breaking the data up into manageable chunks (counties?) and importing in incrementally. I'd be interested in helping with a few chunks. I'm in Arlington, too. Perhaps we'll meet at a DC area event? SEJ ---- "A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes." -Ludwig Wittgenstein
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 17:13, Kate Chapman <k...@maploser.com> wrote: > Hi Josh, > > I've done a couple imports with varying levels of success. I live in > Virginia (in Arlington) and would like to help. > > -Kate > > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Josh Doe <j...@joshdoe.com> wrote: > > I absolutely agree about preserving user contributions. For any given > > segment in the Virginia RCL Shapefile, there are any number of ways in > > OSM that make up that segment, with varying attributes. The reverse is > > possible as well. Merging this won't be easy by any means. However > > there's no reason we couldn't start importing (sooner) in areas that > > haven't been edited since the TIGER import > > > > As for RoadMatcher, though I haven't played with it yet, I don't see > > how OSM attributes are lost, it's just that you have to map from > > OSM->Shapefile->OSM. > > > > Remember, I'm just broadcasting my interest, I have a lot of learning to > do. > > > > Regards, > > -Josh > > > > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Mike N <nice...@att.net> wrote: > >>> I'm totally new to importing, so I first wanted to see if anyone else > >>> is interested in this project, though I am willing to take the time to > >>> learn the process myself. Is the process used for importing the > >>> Canadian database [1] the best method for doing this? > >> > >> The process for the Canadian database is best used only for adding new > >> roads that don't exist in the OSM database. As part of the upload > process, > >> plan on stitching them into existing roads, perhaps using JOSM. > >> > >> It would also be handy to be able to project the improved geometry onto > >> existing roads of the same name, while preserving attributes and > driveway / > >> footpath / bridges that have already been added to the OSM data. That > >> will preserve user's contributions and history. This would require some > >> new, yet-to-be developed tool to work directly with OSM data. There is > much > >> interest in this because of the TIGER 2010 data and Arkansas state data > >> sets. It is not certain when there will be developer resources to > develop > >> such a tool. > >> > >> The limitation of Roadmatcher is that it works only with shapefiles, > thus > >> OSM attributes are lost when exporting to shapefiles. > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Talk-us mailing list > >> Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Imports mailing list > > impo...@openstreetmap.org > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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