[OSM-dev] TIGER upload automation

[Brandon Martin-Anderson]

The reason OSM isn't active in the US is because it's all wasted, redundant
effort until the public domain base layers are uploaded in. Once they're
imported, we can begin the work of correcting and augmenting them. It's
pretty darned important.

-B

On 8/29/07, Dave Hansen <dave at sr71.net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 21:42 +0100, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:
> > IMHO Tiger import takes priority over anything else going on on dev that
> > I know about. It's certainly more important than Tiles at Home, for
> > example. If T at H gets no updates for a couple of weeks, people won't miss
> > it as much as the entire population of the USA miss having any maps at
> all.
>
> I certainly don't think it is _that_ important.  We'd have more maps in
> the US if more people were _mapping_! :)
>
> In any case, the load at upload is going to be pretty darn low.  The
> hardest part is creating the .osm files in the first place, because that
> requires at least 2GB of RAM for quite a few counties.  I'm doing all of
> that locally, and I can upload these to whatever the machine from which
> we decide to upload.
>
> -- Dave
>
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