[OSM-dev] TIGER, which states next?

Karl Newman siliconfiend at gmail.com
Sun Oct 28 06:27:40 GMT 2007


On 10/25/07, Karl Newman <siliconfiend at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/24/07, Karl Newman <siliconfiend at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/24/07, Karl Newman <siliconfiend at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 10/23/07, Karl Newman <siliconfiend at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On 10/23/07, Dave Hansen <dave at sr71.net> wrote:
> > > > > I'm basically out of empty states to upload. I've done Oregon,
> > > > > Washington, Montana, North/South Dakota, Alabama and Georgia.  Should I
> > > > > just start uploading over existing data, or are there some large swaths
> > > > > of states out there that I can put in the queue?
> > > > >
> > > > > -- Dave
> > > >
> > > > The following Northwest California counties are pretty empty right now
> > > > (except for some major roads and coastlines):
> > > > Del Norte
> > > > Humboldt
> > > > Mendocino
> > > > Trinity
> > > > Lake
> > > >
> > > > There's a bunch of unwayed segments and unwayed nodes in there. I
> > > > might purge those out before you start the upload.
> > > >
> > > > I'm looking at Northeast CA right now to find more candidates.
> > > >
> > > Okay, someone has done a fair amount of mapping around Lassen NP, but
> > > I don't think the TIGER data will collide too much. So, I think you
> > > can safely add the following Northeast CA counties, too:
> > > Siskiyou
> > > Shasta
> > > Tehama
> > > Plumas
> > > Butte
> > > Glenn
> > > Colusa
> > > Yuba
> > > Sierra
> > > Nevada
> > >
> > > I'll keep looking for more candidates in CA. (I'm using data from the
> > > planet file and looking at the results in JOSM).
> > >
> > Add these, too:
> > Sutter
> > Yolo
> > Placer
> > El Dorado
> > Sacramento
> > Amador
> > Alpine
> > Calaveras
> > Tuolomne
> > San Joaquin
> > Stanislaus
> > Merced
> > Mariposa
> > Madera
> > Mono
> > Fresno
> > San Benito
> > Kings
> > Tulare
> > Inyo
> > Santa Cruz
> > Monterey
> > San Luis Obispo
> > Kern
> >
> OSM mappers have been busy in Southern California :-). Ventura county
> is probably okay to upload; only a few roads mapped there, but there
> is some not-insignificant mapping in Santa Barbara county, and some
> substantial mapping in Los Angeles and Orange counties. Probably best
> to let those "owners" merge the data themselves. Imperial county is
> empty, too.
> So, add:
> Ventura
> Imperial
>
> And that should about do it for California until someone merges the
> already-mapped counties.
>
Oops, I forgot Marin county. It's empty except for Highway 101 and the
coastline, so it's ready for TIGER data.

Karl




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