[Imports] [Imports-us] Address Data Import for Fulton County, Georgia

Saikrishna Arcot saiarcot895 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 18 23:49:50 UTC 2014


Carl,

I think that's the link I tried, but both my browser and wget are 
unable to download the file. I'm not sure if it's something with my 
computer or with the network. I'll try getting the file through other 
methods later.

Saikrishna Arcot

On Sat 18 Jan 2014 06:40:25 PM EST, Carl Anderson wrote:
> Saikrishna,
>
> This links to the TIGER 2013 ZCTA5 file is good.
>
> ftp://ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2013/ZCTA5/tl_2013_us_zcta510.zip
>
> If you start st www.gensus.gov and follow geography -> TIGER you can
> find the current links.  Data,gov some times leads you to
> informational pages that are broken.
>
> In addition to this file you should use the ZIPL and ZIPR fiends of
> the EDGES TIGER files to capture ZIP codes that have very small ZIP
> codes.  Think the Georgia State Capitol, CNN Center, Century Center,
> ....
>
> http://www.census.gov/geo/reference/zctas.html
>
> C.
>
> On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Saikrishna Arcot <saiarcot895 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> A few updates:
>>
>> Since I can't get the ZCTA5 file, I'll just have the existing city name
>> converted to title case, and add in an exception for DeKalb, since that
>> seems to be the only one with mixed case.
>>
>> Also, I looked at the building data from Fulton County GIS, and it looks
>> fairly good. There is at least one main issues there: Some buildings have
>> overlapping buildings; in other words, the same building has been drawn two
>> or three times. The other building ways are generally shifted slightly, and
>> have more/less detail than the others.
>>
>> If we are to import these buildings, I can add in a check to see if the
>> building being imported intersects with or is contained in an existing
>> building. I added the source dataset and converted OSM files (using the
>> OpenData plugin in JOSM and a splitter script to break it into smaller
>> files) on the wiki page. The area that each file covers is listed in the
>> areas.list file.
>>
>>
>> On Fri 17 Jan 2014 01:25:48 PM EST, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
>>
>>
>> The issue of 'source attribution' is one that comes up over and over
>> again.
>> Having a good standard answer to that would be nice. I think OSM
>> should tag the contributing source
>> in a way that would allow any region to be selected, and show a list
>> of contributors, be they OSM
>> users, background map providers, or data providers.
>>
>>
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