[talk-au] Suburb - Bal

[Franc Carter]

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:47 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 6 January 2011 21:38, Franc Carter <franc.carter at gmail.com> wrote:
> > In the absence of better data they still provide a much better idea than
> > guessing a radius around a point, we just need to make sure that we are
> > clear that they are best guesstimates for the moment.
>
> I thought the ABS was due to release new data files soon?
>

Oops - I mean having ABS instead of nothing - if we get a new ABS then that
would better than current ABS - w emay need to work out how to leave
boundaries where people have made extensive tweaks based on local knowledge


>
> > I think you are right about a re-import, we have learnt a bunch of things
> > since the first import which will hopefully make a fresh one better. I
> can
> > think of ways around most of the issues with a delete/rebuild - one issue
> > that doesn't jump out with a solution is how to minimise the amount of
> time
> > that no data exists and hence we have gone backwards a bit.
>
> That's not difficult, especially since I'd suggest a dry run or two
> before hand, you can find all the data via XAPI and then use JOSM to
> send a delete and then send up new boundary data soon after.
>

The upload took 'a while' - i.e a week or two from memory ;-(

-- 
Franc
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