The only reason I can think of is if we want to attempt to put the address range data into OSM for the initial load. I think it's a good idea because it is probably pretty accurate, it is a piece of data that isn't much fun to collect, and will be highly useful for routing apps.
<br><br>I think it makes sense to just stuff it in however we can, then it can be rearranged later. I have been meaning to play with the script and see if there's a way that makes sense, but I've been really busy/lazy.
<br><br>Other than that, I agree we should start importing pretty soon.<br><br>-Al<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Alex Mauer</b> <<a href="mailto:hawke@hawkesnest.net">hawke@hawkesnest.net
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Dave Hansen wrote:<br>> I'm uploading a test county now (Hood River, OR) so that we can see how
<br>> it renders. Please don't upload any other bits of this, just yet. But,<br>> please download them and take a look at them in JOSM or even render them<br>> if you can.<br><br>What problems should we look for? And if no problems are found, why not
<br>upload? At the very worst, it's still better to have some data to start<br>from (and correct problems) than to have to start from scratch.<br><br>It also occurs to me that this would be a great use case for JOSM's new
<br>layers when merging TIGER and OSM info where it already exists: Load the<br>OSM data; load the imported TIGER data; select a way in the TIGER data;<br>if JOSM can do this yet, copy or move the way from the TIGER layer to
<br>the OSM layer. et voila, the TIGER way exists in OSM.<br><br>Potential pitfalls: occasions where the copied way crosses an existing<br>way (potential solution: if there's an existing node on both ways at<br>some "close enough" range, connect them. If it turns out to be wrong,
<br>not too big of a deal to fix it in JOSM.<br><br>It would also be wonderful if JOSM can select everything with a certain<br>tag for the copying: I have (almost) no rail whatsoever in my county,<br>like 200' or so...so little that deleting it and importing the TIGER
<br>data is very feasible. But even assuming the inter-layer copying (as<br>above) is doable, can I select "all rail" or do I have to select every<br>single individual railway way?<br><br>-Alex Mauer "hawke"
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