[Imports] Importing Arkansas data

[Ian Dees]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Al Pascual <apascual at esri.com> wrote:

> Imports,
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> The state of Arkansas provided the data in shapefiles to be uploaded to
> OpenStreetMaps, we prepared the parcel data
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I think that we (as a community) have decided that parcel data is not useful
to us. Parcel boundaries are especially not useful. Parcel addresses,
however, are another story. I'd be happy to see addressing data imported as
points or applied to parcel buildings if those are available.


> to be uploaded making sure they are not duplicates of parcel data in
> Arkansas, also we have all road data for the state that we will like to
> upload, we wrote a tool that using ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap 1.1
> detects duplicates by how many collisions and intersections we found and
> only uploads the ways that do not have any collision.
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Please show us this tool. Beyond seeing the cool technology behind it, we
should make sure that it's doing "the right thing". How do you plan on
uploading these changes? What happens when an upload fails midway? Do you
reupload the whole changeset (thus duplicating data)? What are "collisions"
that you are detecting?


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> Let us know if you have any questions.
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Who is "us"? Is ESRI getting into the business of loading data into OSM?


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> Cheers
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> Al
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