ACH is 65% re-built. im tired and getting annoyed at the 2000 point limit. someone else take over...
sorry for the direct email to the recipient as well... On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Charlotte Wolter <techl...@techlady.com> wrote: > > Got it. Thanks for the explanation. > So, how do I "load shapefiles into a separate layer"? I need someone > to walk me through it. How would I do that, if I wanted to get things like > street names (and the other TIGER data)? > > --C > > > > At 04:11 PM 7/19/2012, you wrote: > > * Charlotte Wolter <techl...@techlady.com> [2012-07-19 15:58 -0700]: >> That's great, but will it overwrite work that we've already >> done? > > Presumably not. Potlatch loads shapefiles into a separate layer and > requires mappers to manually pull the data into OSM. > >> Also, is this something that works only in JOSM, in which >> case many of us couldn't use it? > > No. For one thing, Richard is the main developer of Potlatch and doesn't > do anything with JOSM. For another thing, he mentioned "reworking the P2 > source code"; "P2" refers to Potlatch 2. > >> Also, I still don't understand why all the TIGER data was >> deleted on ways that were partially deleted. > > Because of OpenStreetMap's data model. When you split a way, what your > editor does is upload a changed version of the original that only > contains half the original nodes and then upload a new way with the same > tags as the old one that contains the other half of the nodes. To > subsequent database queries, the second way appears as though you created > it and there's no direct link back to the way that originally contained > the nodes. > > On top of that, there was a deliberate decision made (as I understand > things) not to undo deletions, which includes the removal of nodes from a > way. Had the bot done that, there would be many places where the bot > would create multiple, overlapping, tangled ways. > > Since either approach would have left significant messes for mappers to > clean up, there wasn't really a good way forward. The people working on > the redaction bot felt that not undeleting would be the better of two bad > options. > > -- > ...computer contrarian of the first order... / http://aperiodic.net/phil/ > PGP: 026A27F2 print: D200 5BDB FC4B B24A 9248 9F7A 4322 2D22 026A 27F2 > --- -- > i am not interested in a penis for aesthetic purposes. > -- isabelle whitman > ---- --- -- > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > Charlotte Wolter > > > 927 18th Street Suite A > Santa Monica, California > 90403 > +1-310-597-4040 > techl...@techlady.com > Skype: thetechlady > > The Four Internet Freedoms > Freedom to visit any site on the Internet > Freedom to access any content or service that is not illegal > Freedom to attach any device that does not interfere with the network > Freedom to know all the terms of a service, particularly any that would > affect the first three freedoms. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
