SteveCoast writes: > If anything parcels will be hard. That's a good thing. If we want to take > the easy route we should give up now.
Well, as Josh points out, parcels are not necessarily related to anything on the ground. They could be, e.g. my property lines are co-incident with stone walls, barbed wire, and split-rail fences except where they don't. And the source of parcel data is going to be external to OSM -- almost certainly the county clerks's real property office. And it's not a physical description of the property anyway -- it's a legal description of it. Having the physical features perfectlty mapped wouldn't help. So the chief value, I think, of getting this "into" OSM is more, rather, getting it into OSM format, and aggregating it on a single server. That is an fton of value, and is a worthy goal. I don't believe that there's any sensible or valuable way to get it into OSM itself. I only say this because I tried it. Bought a copy of Oneida County's parcel data, put it into OSM format. Loaded it into JOSM, and ... It didn't really make any sense when merged in with OSM data. As a separate layer, it makes sense. -- --my blog is at http://blog.russnelson.com Crynwr supports open source software 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-600-8815 Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | Sheepdog _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us