[Imports] Import US County data

[Ian Dees]

I don't think koordinates or geocommons offer what we need, though: a way
for a mapper to take the results of merging and use them while mapping in
JOSM or Potlatch.

I don't think the right thing to do is to merge the data and then upload it
wholesale (i.e. with a script) into OSM.

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Sam Vekemans
<acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm still early in the game, but it looks like koordinates.com could
> be the best holding house for this.
> .... all that needs to be done on koordinates.com side is to have the
> option to zoom into an area and export as .osm files.
>
>
> I'll be loading a bit more samples of shp files so to see what it's like.
>
>
>
> I think geocommons.com is planning on supporting .osm files as a
> export option.... its just too early to tell who will be the biggest
> and best :)
>
>
> If there is a 3rd .shp file website out their, i'd be happy to hear of it.
>
>
> cheers,
> sam
>
>
> p.s. on the new zealand mailing list, folks are wrattling their brains
> to get something.
> ... and for canvec it's the ommissions and remissions that can be done
> at canvec data source level.
>
>
> Still no breakthrough afaik ...
>
> On 12/8/10, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:
> > With TIGER 2010 starting to roll out we need to think about how to offer
> > some way of comparing OSM with arbitrary datasets.
> >
> > Here are my thoughts so far:
> > 1) User uploads a shapefile
> > 2) User selects attribute(s) in the shapefile to use for matching with
> OSM
> > data (i.e. a road name or tiger identifier or something)
> > 3) System performs a geospatial match (including the attribute(s) the
> user
> > specified in step 2) on OSM data in the area of the shapefile
> > 4) System renders a map with three layers: a) data in reference but not
> > found in OSM, b) data in OSM but not found in reference, c) data in both
> >
> > Based on (4), mappers can modify the OSM data to more-closely match the
> > geometry or meta-data of the reference data set. A more complicated
> version
> > of this tool could allow the mapper to accept wholesale changes in
> geometry
> > or attributes into the OSM dataset (removing or manipulating the existing
> > data).
> >
> > This is all pretty tricky, but I'd love to hear other people's opinions.
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Mike N. <niceman at att.net> wrote:
> >
> >> I have obtained a set of road centerlines from a US county that has been
> >> published in the public domain.   I would like to use this to correct
> the
> >> OSM roads for that county, since the TIGER data was one of the "poor
> >> alignments" that we are so familiar with.   In addition, the road names
> >> have
> >> all been changed for E911 consistency.   This file is likely even newer
> >> than
> >> the 2010 TIGER centerlines.
> >>
> >>  I have used Ian's shp-to-osm to begin looking at the data.
> >>
> >>  1.   Does anyone have a rules file for a typical municipal road
> >> centerlines shape file conversion?     I started to develop this, but
> >> can't
> >> believe no one has done this before.
> >>  2.   Is it good to preserve TIGER tags for untouched roadways, or just
> >> delete and replace them?   The geometry is so far off that it is easier
> to
> >> delete and replace.
> >>
> >>  Usual import disclaimers -
> >>
> >>  Any relations will be preserved.
> >>  Any existing road alignment edits will be preserved (such as for
> >> interstates)
> >>  Any existing attribution will be preserved (speed limits, traffic
> lights,
> >> etc)
> >>  Corrected data will be manually stitched to existing data at borders or
> >> pre-edited roads.
> >>
> >>
> >>
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