[Imports] Importing Arkansas data

[Mike Dupont]

On the subject of arkansas, I was working on the norfork lake and the gov
hydrology data would be well worth importing....
http://www.mail-archive.com/imports@openstreetmap.org/msg00380.html
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/361097
http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/dsdl/ds240/polygon/g36092.zip
mike

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> To clarify what I meant about parcel data: I'm assuming you mean parcels
>> in terms of household property boundaries. This data is difficult to fit
>> into the OSM data model because it a) updates frequently and b) has an
>> "official" source that is better to use than OSM. If you can extract
>> addressing from the parcel data then we can use it to do better geocoding,
>> but loading OSM with parcel data puts us closer to a "data dumping grounds"
>> than an active, community-built map.
>>
>>
> For information, in France (65 M inhabitants), we have all the tools to
> import parcels for about 2 thirds of the territory but we all agreed to not
> do this for the same reasons as listed above.
>
> Pieren
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