Hi Ben (and others), Sorry I haven't commented on the conversion until now. Life intervened. In general the conversion looks good. One slightly important thing I noticed is that there are no names on any of the objects.
James On Friday, August 26, 2011 12:14:44 AM Ben Supnik wrote: > Hi Ben, > > On 8/21/11 10:40 AM, Ben Miller wrote: > > Great! Thanks Ben. > > > > I downloaded the data for the two areas that I'm interested in > > (04060104 and 04060105) and stuck them in JOSM. I'm not sure I feel > > comfortable just dumping the whole thing in (especially if it might > > cause problems) so I was planning on doing it more or less item by > > item. Is there a flaw in that plan? > > I don't think so...my hope was to get the data into a form editors could > use, not to promote bulk importing; in some cases some but not all of > the water data for a region may already be present from hand-mapping or > other data sources, so merging is necessary. > > > Also, is there an explanation somewhere of what the various files > > represent? XXX_nhdarhi0.xml, XXX_nhdflh0.xml, etc. > > The names come right off of the NHD shapefile export. > > http://nhd.usgs.gov/documentation.html > > (That stuff gets pretty terrifying pretty quickly. Basically the data > is partitioned by data quality and topology type, so nhdarhi is NHD > area, highest res data, fl is flow lines, etc. The files are broken > into sequence within a HUC to avoid any one file being too huge. > > > And one question about methodology: There are a few larger lakes that > > were added as part of the PGS process. They appear to have been left > > pretty much untouched (except by me) and the NHD data is > > significantly more accurate. Would it be acceptable to replace the > > PGS ways with NHD ways, assuming I make sure to connect up any > > rivers, add them to appropriate relations, etc? > > I can't comment on that - I'm not sure there is really a single "right > thing" to do for OSM; others may at least have better informed opinions > than I do. :-) > > cheers > ben > > _______________________________________________ > 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
