[Imports] The French Corine Import has started

[Emilie Laffray]

Hello,

I am sending a quick message to mention that the French import of Corine
has started. We created an user for the occasion:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/CLCF06

The polygons are already starting to appear all over France, since we
are uploading polygons by polygons. The import will take about a week to
complete. The final green light was given by the French community after
reviewing some mapnik overlay and review of the logic used for the
calculation of overlaps.
The maximum size for a way is 2000 nodes.
I hope you will enjoy looking at France and see polygons appearing as
much as we do currently.
This is the first phase of the import. We are importing only polygons
with little overlaps with existing OSM geometries. The scripts will be
published this week. The goal of this import was to minimize any impacts
on the user who have been working hard in completing the map of France.
The second phase will be the use of a web interface to allow individual
users to import polygons that were not imported manually. The interface
will be made public once the main import will be finished.

Emilie Laffray

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