[Talk-ca] importing GeoBase Data (learning from TIGER)
James Ewen
jewen at shaw.ca
Thu Nov 27 04:31:57 GMT 2008
Okay, 'splain this to me...
Let's just say that we have the whole of Canada imported from Geobase.
How does an update get processed? ie. Geobase makes a big update to
it's database, and we want to update OSM from that? Will there need to
be some ID tag on each way so that we don't just create a whole new
layer under/over the old?
If this is the case, we need to ensure that these ID tags stay with
the ways. If someone goes in, and joins two ways that make up the
street in front of his house, because he thinks it really shouldn't be
two ways between the three nodes, is this going to be a problem?
If we do a mass import, but skip well defined areas like Toronto, does
this mean that it's going to need to be skipped forever since the
Geobase tags won't be integrated into the skipped area ever?
Whatever it means, I'm itching to get more data stuffed into Alberta!
I've burnt a couple thousand dollars worth of fuel just putting some
of the major highways into the database. I'm hoping there's going to
be some way to define an area, and then ask for a Geobase import to be
done on that area, and then I just need to go into that area and make
sure things imported properly, watching for any errors/duplication.
James
VE6SRV
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