Hi,<br>Thank you Sam to bring good ideas. I agree with you that if we put the data available<br>on OSM it will create a bigger community around the OSM.<br><br>The 'render=no' tag is a good idea to flag conflicts or potential conflicts. But first, we <br>
should develop automatic import processes to load without conflict a large amount of <br>data. The hydrography and boundaries will not introduce conflicts or few. For the roads,<br>it is important to integrate geobase ways to existing osm ways. If we import everything<br>
without integration it will require a very large effort with josm or potlach to integrate manually<br>the data. It would be possible to integrate a good part of the road and tag the rest with<br>'render=no'.<br><br>
Does anyone know how the people proceeded for importing TIGER data ?<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Michel<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/11/24 Sam Vekemans <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:acrosscanadatrails@gmail.com">acrosscanadatrails@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi,<br>
after letting the idea spin in my head a while, here's what i got.<br>
<br>
Import everything from geobase, and just add the 'render=no' tag.<br>
Here's why.<br>
1 we already know that all we need todo is select the group of areas,<br>
ways &points that we see are not in conflect with anything else, and<br>
select the tag, and change it to 'render=yes' so a whole bunch of<br>
stuff can be released for rendering. <br>
2 when new data is available, it can simply check to see if the tag<br>
exists, can check if it needs updating, and update it, but not be<br>
rendered.<br>
3 it wont be a problem as since its not rendered, it will only show<br>
when a user sees that the rendered version needs to be fixed, when<br>
someone is actually there.<br>
4 in the case where geobase is 'wrong' instead of 'incomplete' the<br>
'wrong version would stay and exist in the database, until physially<br>
removed, so the next 'dump of data would show it better.<br>
5 would it be possable to have data over top of eachother where the<br>
rendered version was combined? Yes, but it wouldnt make a difference<br>
as the latest data dump wont be rendered.<br>
So heres are challenge, if we can import this all, and prove to the<br>
community that this is the best map available, more and more companies<br>
will be using this as the best available data. Then local government<br>
would see the merrit of contributing, rather than reinventing the<br>
wheel.<br>
Looking forward to feedback,<br>
Sam<br>
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