[talk-au] City Council mapping data import

[John Smith]

2009/9/4 Ashley Kyd <ash at kyd.com.au>:
> It might be worth looking at how the TIGER data was merged in the
> 'states... And not doing it that way.

It wasn't merged, it was just imported and the TIGER data is largely
nice approximations, but not very accurate. There will be a new TIGER
data set in 2010 I believe that they've spent a lot more time, effort,
money on to make it better.

> I'd personally prefer if if this kind of data wasn't even to be merged
> straight away. If it were made available in a format JOSM can overlay,
> actual humans could then go over it in the same way we currently do with
> Yahoo! imagery.

If we get shape files they can be converted similar to the postcodes
that we are manually importing at preset, however depending on the
amount of data it may not be feasible to manually import it.

>      * Takes more effort, but with a greater result.

Not necessarily, a computer program will do the whole thing
consistently, crowd sourcing will vary person to person.