[Imports] TIGER09 data in .osm format for California?

[Ian Dees]

Sam, as far as I know the 2010 TIGER shapefile defintion hasn't been
released yet. Let's wait to see what they have before we spend too much time
on it (unless someone has a compelling reason to use 2009 right away).

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Sam Vekemans
<acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Ian,
> I have the list of all of the Tiger map features, if anyone has
> already gone through the catelogue and matched it up with the
> appropriate OSM tags, it would save me some work.
>
>
> Most of the map features are obvious matches, so its not that
> difficult to figure out..
>
>
> cheers,
> sam
>
> On 9/16/10, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I don't think anyone has converted the TIGER shapefiles en masse yet. Do
> you
> > need the data right now? If not, let's start talking about how we can
> > convert the 2010 TIGER data once it comes out. Tim Trainor (of the Census
> > Bureau) has mentioned several times that the 2010 data is quite a bit
> better
> > than 2009.
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Alan Mintz
> > <Alan_Mintz+OSM at earthlink.net <Alan_Mintz%2BOSM at earthlink.net><
> Alan_Mintz%2BOSM at earthlink.net <Alan_Mintz%252BOSM at earthlink.net>>
> >> wrote:
> >
> >> I looked at the wiki pages for ogr2osm and shp2osm (+ogr2ogr) and it
> seems
> >> it will be somewhat involved to get either solution working on Windows.
> >>
> >> Is there a repository somewhere of TIGER09 data that has already been
> >> converted to .osm format? I'm looking specifically for southern CA
> >> (counties
> >> of LA, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, San Diego, Kern, Ventura,
> Santa
> >> Barbara, SLO, etc.).
> >>
> >> --
> >> Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>
> >>
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