[Imports] Florida Landuse Import Revived

James Crawford sherbets at disroot.org
Sat Aug 20 21:28:08 UTC 2022


Hello again,


Asdfjkll has fixed some of the isses that were present with the original 
data file, and we have a new file without validator issues that I will 
start importing at the end of the month. thanks for the help!


-SherbetS

On 8/14/2022 2:51 PM, James Crawford via Imports wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I’ve been working on reviving the Florida landuse import that was 
> started by Hiausirg in February 2022.
>
> The main issues I’ve addressed:
>
> For a couple of the more ambiguous values, I opted to skip importing 
> in order to reduce the amount of potentially poor quality data that 
> would enter the map.
>
> I’ve created a buffer zone around all the roads in the county, this is 
> standard procedure in landuse mapping in Alabama, and in my opinion 
> it’s easier to work with data that is offset from the road rather than 
> having a line that draws generally to the centerline of the road.
>
> This is not a solo effort. We will be importing via the tasking 
> manager by clipping data to the boundary of the tasks and joining the 
> data at the boundary of the tasks after manually reviewing the data 
> present in the task. The tasking manager will be split into 10km by 
> 10km cells to reduce workload and make it easier to validate the data 
> quality.
>
> I improved on asdfjkll’s original extract by making the bounding box I 
> used to clip the data to exactly match the coastline data on 
> OpenStreetMap so there should be no issue with clipping in the ocean. 
> I’ve also clipped exactly to the boundary of the other data that 
> Hiausirg has already imported, so there should be no issue with 
> overlap there either.
>
> What I still need help with:
>
> I’m not sure how to make the tasking manager have custom boundaries 
> for each task. If someone could show me how to generate a shapefile 
> with this information, I would greatly appreciate it.
>
> I also don’t know the details of how I should be extracting pieces of 
> the data to match the tasks grid. I figure I could use the clip tool 
> in QGIS to make a shapefile of the task that is being worked on, but I 
> would like to know if there is a less cumbersome way to do this.
>
> Link: https://cloud.disroot.org/s/eskJ2gmSjiaoEws
>
> This is a folder with 2 shapefiles. In the “current” folder I have 
> provided the full dataset that I have processed.
>
> In the “sample” folder I provide a smaller extract if you would like a 
> sample of the data and its quality.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -SherbetS
>
>
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