[Imports] [Talk-us] TIGER considered harmful

Dave Hansen dave at sr71.net
Sun Nov 15 22:33:46 GMT 2009


On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 14:25 -0800, Sam Vekemans wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 2 - This team then works and converts this data to OSM format, and
> makes the files available on a server somewhere.
> 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.
> 
> 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.   
> 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.

Yeah, and that does sound like a really nice way to do it, especially
when there is existing data.  

-- Dave





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