[Talk-ca] Geobase import by provinces

[Steve Singer]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2008, Richard Weait wrote:

> I believe that the TIGER import started in sparse areas as well.
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TIGER

Is there a collected 'lessons learned' from the TIGER import (or any other 
bulk import to OSM).  Reading over the TIGER pages it looks like they had to 
revert the intial import attempt and start over.


> There may be an advantage to starting with the boundaries first and then
> the hydro network (surface water).  We have very few boundaries to merge
> with, and I expect the hydro data to be much better than the vmap0 and
> aerial tracing.  Let me know if I'm mistaken.


At some level the boundaries, hydro and road network can all be dealt with 
independently. I agree that the hydro and boundaries should pose fewer 
issues than the road network and we should let those move forward while we 
are still looking into the best way to handle roads.

>
> In an earlier post, Michel suggested looking at the more-complete road
> data first, to allow other provinces to catch up.  I concur.  In fact,
> starting with Yukon, with street and place names, and block face
> addressing will be a wonderful demonstration.  It would be wonderful to
> be able to implement the Karlsruhe addressing scheme during the
> import.
>

This would allow us to sort out tagging issues, import scripts, etc without 
having to worry about a lot of merging conflicts.



> Best regards,
> Richard
>
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