I'm probably not supposed to email you all but I hate seeing unanswered questions.<div><br></div><div>We have official publications about the project:</div><div><br></div><div>FactSheet: <a href="http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/fs20113103">http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/fs20113103</a></div>
<div>Phase 1: <a href="http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr20111136">http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr20111136</a></div><div><br></div><div>An OFR on Phase 2 is due out any day now. Watch the RSS feed here: <a href="http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/#home">http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/#home</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Phase 1 was purely an evaluation of the OSM software. Phase 2 was a test to see if the data could be integrated into The National Map. Phase 3 is a test to see what it would be like in production.</div>
<div><br></div><div>We switched to Potlatch2 at the end of Phase 1. Our version of P2 is modified (slightly) to only allow the very small number of structure types (nodes) that we need for The National Map to be added. In fact, we went through the entire system and disabled features that didn't fit our needs. The result is a much simpler user experience.</div>
<div><br></div><div>We are hoping to submit the data to OSM itself but we are very sensitive to the issues of bulk uploads from "authoritative" data sources. We don't want to do this until we have a good way to manage the process. One thought was to only update the same features that are in OSM but haven't been changed. The data we are looking at was part of the GNIS database which was bulk uploaded into OSM in 2009. Most of that data is untouched (except for bots) in OSM and still has the USGS feature ID (gnis:feature_id) saved in a tag. In theory, we could automatically update only the data from our system with matching gnis:feature_id tags in OSM that haven't been touched by humans. The rest of the data would have to managed manually.</div>
<div><br></div><div>We do create a nightly planet file: <a href="http://navigator.er.usgs.gov/planet/planet.osm">http://navigator.er.usgs.gov/planet/planet.osm</a></div><div><br></div><div>Feel free to explore the data. You can also explore the system without creating an account using "guest" as the user ID and "usgsguest" as the password. Changes from that account are reverted nightly.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Eric</div><div><br clear="all">-=--=---=----=----=---=--=-=--=---=----=---=--=-=-<br>Eric B. Wolf 720-334-7734<br><br><br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Charlotte Wolter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:techlady@techlady.com" target="_blank">techlady@techlady.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Ian,<br><br>
<u></u> <u></u>I read
through their Web site. <br>
<u></u> <u></u>They used
Potlatch 1 for two pilot projects in "crowdsourcing" (yes, they
used the word) topographic data. Apparently they were pleased enough with
the results to plan to move ahead, at some point, with crowdsourced
topographic mapping. I hope they have taken a look at Potlatch 2.<br>
<u></u> <u></u>They also
mentioned OSM several times on a couple of Web pages, which was nice
publicity.<br><br>
Charlotte<div><div class="h5"><br><br>
<br>
At 02:50 PM 7/22/2012, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Yep. They announced it
prematurely. They'll have more information about it in the near
future.<br><br>
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Adam Schreiber
<<a href="mailto:adam.schreiber+osm@gmail.com" target="_blank">
adam.schreiber+osm@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<dd>Ian,<br><br>
</dd><dd>The link appears to be dead. Was the video taken down?<br><br>
</dd><dd>Cheers,<br><br>
</dd><dd>Adam<br><br>
</dd><dd>On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Ian Dees
<<a href="mailto:ian.dees@gmail.com" target="_blank">ian.dees@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
</dd><dd>> Hi everyone,<br>
</dd><dd>><br>
</dd><dd>> I saw a tweet from @USGS today mentioning that the National Map
Corps are<br>
</dd><dd>> starting up again. If you don't know what the National Map Corps
is, think<br>
</dd><dd>> of it like "OpenStreetMap for the US Government".
Volunteer mappers<br>
</dd><dd>> correcting and adding to the topo maps all over the country. I'm
sure there<br>
</dd><dd>> are others with much more information, but it was a pretty epic
project and<br>
</dd><dd>> is the source for lots of the free and public domain data we use
to this<br>
</dd><dd>> day.<br>
</dd><dd>><br>
</dd><dd>> For the last year or two (or three?) Eric Wolf's been working to
adapt the<br>
</dd><dd>> OpenStreetMap stack to the USGS's needs, and it looks like it
that work has<br>
</dd><dd>> finally been released. Check out this video for more
information:<br>
</dd><dd>>
<a href="http://gallery.usgs.gov/videos/552" target="_blank">
http://gallery.usgs.gov/videos/552</a>. Skip to 4:10 or so to see it in
action.<br>
</dd><dd>><br>
</dd><dd>> Hopefully Eric and others will respond here and tell us more
about it!<br>
</dd><dd>><br>
</dd><dd>> -Ian<br>
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