On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 9:44 PM, vegard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:27:27PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: >> On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 09:43 +0200, vegard wrote: >> > >> > I see it like this: What could be very useful to have, is a mapping >> > between tiger data (old set) and OSM data. It could be to late for this >> > round, but an external_id:tiger = XXXX that you'd *never* remove, is a >> > good thing. That'll help when updating. >> >> Umm. We have this. It's called a tlid, and it's already in the data >> set. When TIGER objects got combined into a single OSM object, I >> preserved this tag. I *also* submitted patches to JOSM to preserve this >> tag when merging points and ways. >> > > Good! I swear, I did mean to write "you might already have this, > but...".
It would have taken two minutes to check. > Well, rest of conversion depends: Is there a (relatively) easy way to do a > diff > between the old set and the new set? It'd be good to know what is the > changes introduced by the new set. The size/amount of those changes will > decide the strategy for rest, no? These are simple questions that everyone knows need asking - maybe you could do some research and come back with the answers? Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk