<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Val Kartchner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:val42k@gmail.com">val42k@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On Sun, 2011-06-26 at 10:45 -0400, Mike N wrote:<br>
> On 6/26/2011 10:01 AM, Nick Hocking wrote:<br>
> > What would be really usefull is to have OSM in one of the geofabrik<br>
> > compare windows and TIGER 2010 in the other. Is there an easy way to<br>
> > achieve this?<br>
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> Until Ian gets the comparison server up, you can try setting the<br>
> "Inactive" layer color in JOSM to a bright color. Download an area of<br>
> interest. Open the .OSM file - it will come in as a new layer. Then ...<br>
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Okay, when is the expected time for Ian to get this up and running?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>As I said in my mail, getting a comparison view set up will be my first order of operation when the new server gets set up some time next week.</div>
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Also, this has probably been stated before, but where do we get these<br>
sections of data?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>You can get county-sized data sets from the TIGER website. I've grouped together state-sized data into zip files here: <a href="http://cube.telascience.org/osm/tiger2010/">http://cube.telascience.org/osm/tiger2010/</a></div>
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