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Hi Dave,<br><br>I'll bud in for a moment :) .. with my 2 Canadian pennies<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Dave Hansen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@sr71.net">dave@sr71.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 10:59 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:<br>
> Dave Hansen wrote:<br>
> > If we can come up with a scheme for getting the addressing imported in a<br>
> > sane fashion and the consensus is that people want it done that way,<br>
> > it'll get imported. There are still quite a few squeaky wheels that<br>
> > like to grumble about TIGER, but I haven't heard a single person say<br>
> > that it did more harm than good.<br>
><br>
> I firmly believe this. TIGER contains so many errors in Oregon,<br>
> Washington and Idaho that it would likely be easier to start fresh than<br>
> fix.<br></div></blockquote><div><snip> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">
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</div>So, what I did initially was go and contact all of the mappers in the US<br>
that I could find. I asked them all individually what should be done in<br>
their local areas and I believe I was able to follow their wishes<br>
without failure. If you want to do the same with TIGER removal, I'd<br>
welcome it, especially if you have something superior to contribute. On<br>
a small or large scale, we should *NEVER* keep any data in the map just<br>
because it is what was already there.<br>
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TIGER doesn't provide the best possible map, but it did (and does)<br>
provide the best map that we have access to. If anyone has better<br>
suggestions, I'm open to them.<br>
<br>
Perhaps I have low standard, but I'd prefer a map of turds to<br>
whitespace. :)<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>The basic approach that were going with (for the Canada Import) on a National level is this.<br><br>1 - A few people (we can call the data conversion team) are in charge of taking the data in it's source form (in this case SHP) We use the tools availble (shp-to-osm.jar and/or shp2osm.py) and are the ones who create a set of 'rules' listed showing the source tags, and how we identify them in OSM.<br>
<br>2 - This team then works and converts this data to OSM format, and makes the files available on a server somewhere.<br>2a - IF there is alot of conflect then a postProcess is needed. So geobase2osm was created so that we can take an area and use AutoMATCH and see what data needs to be added to osm.<br>
<br>3 - When these .osm files become available on a server, it's up to the local area mappers to decide on what they want todo with the data. <br>3a - if the data is too complicated, local area mappers tell the conversion team, and this team works out the bugs and learns from everyone else on how to handle it.<br>
<br>So the point here is that yes, it's GRRReat that this tiger data is available to use. BUT it doesnt all HAVE to be used. We all know that the source is of mixed quality. <br><br>So the way to handle the addition of this housenumbers is that a script gets run and this .osm file becomes available. Yup, it'll be work todo by everyone. So in somecases it might be easier to just go out there and map it. <br>
<br>So it's great to hear that Dave has again taken on this HUGE task. Great work!<br>And now were able to learn from eachother. :)<br>BTW, i'm cc'ing the imports@ list so then the imports team can take a look at whats going on. As it will (most probably) be needed up here too, when were ready to import the house numbers :)<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Sam<br><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div>