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

Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com
Thu Sep 16 20:28:11 BST 2010


oh, and the list can be make available in a GoogleDocs chart form,
with columns to fill in the 'key' 'value' and 'notes'.

if there is any volunteers, i can post it.


cheers,
sam

On 9/16/10, 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>
>>> 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.).
>>>
>>> --
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>>>
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