[Imports] Importing Arkansas data

[Ian Dees]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Mike N <niceman at att.net> wrote:

> On 3/28/2011 3:29 PM, Josh Doe wrote:
>
>> Hmm, also is it just me or does it seem like everything that he's
>> imported consists of nodes without any tags? I looked through a few of
>> the changesets and didn't see any ways,
>>
>
>  This part is OK - in terms of an upload, nodes must be present to attach
> ways to.  In a large upload, nodes will be placed first.
>
>  The problem has already been noted here; empty nodes will be visible for a
> period, tempting them to be deleted.
>
>
There are tools out there that sort large datasets like this in such a way
to fit inside the 50k change limit but still be "complete" i.e. no dangling
nodes. Hopefully such a feature would be included in the ESRI tool.
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