[Talk-ca] Fwd: Tiger data as a slippy map option

[Sam Vekemans]

forgot to CC Talk-ca :-)
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From: Sam Vekemans <acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 3:30 AM
Subject: Re: Tiger data as a slippy map option
To: Dave Hansen <dave at sr71.net>


Hi there,I tried to summarize the latest about this on the new wiki page
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Importing_Government_Data#Summary:_Options

 Where the option for tracing would only be used in highly OSM mapped areas,
and only used as a supplement, just as users who normally dont have a GPS
would use the Yahoo imagery.

But, am i right to assume that rendering such a map would probably not be
worth it, as it would be just as easy to only extract from TIGER cerain
sections and data types, and only grab a section of it to import to JOSM,
and than manually compare and update the changes.
Is this how it's done??

But however, Rendering such a map (only using the update files) would
probably be a valuable option, after the 1st round of GeoBase & CanVec data
is imported.  Would you agree?


Thanks,
Sam


On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 6:24 AM, Dave Hansen <dave at sr71.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 03:15 -0800, Sam Vekemans wrote:
> > Where one option is to use an OpenLayers slippy map, where users could
> > use a rendered version of all the Tiger data, and trace with it, just
> > as they would with the Yahoo imagery layer?
>
> I'd really rather just import the data rather than be in a position to
> trace 170 million nodes and 13 million way.  Tiger roads are done, at
> least anyway.
>
> -- Dave
>
>
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