[Talk-ca] Importing geobase data, learning from everyone

[Dale Atkin]

I agree. This isn't an easy problem to solve (assuming I'm seeing the right
problem). I think you'd probably be best off to look at passing through the
NIDs that geobase uses in to your internal database, and using that as a
cross reference.

Dale

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Hansen [mailto:dave at sr71.net] 
Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2008 2:30 PM
To: Sam Vekemans
Cc: Corey Burger; Dale Atkin; Jason Reid; Michel Gilbert; Richard Weait;
simon at mungewell.org; talk-ca at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Importing geobase data, learning from everyone

On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 11:20 -0800, Sam Vekemans wrote:
> (aside: What about converting rejected data to 'highway=road'?)
> when new geobase data is available, the script would be the same, only
> look at the road name and road class in close proximity, and add whats
> missing.

This is a very easy thing to say, but exceeding hard to accomplish in
practice.  We've thought about it extensively for the newer TIGER
revisions, but haven't come up with anything that we're happy with.
There are just plain too many corner cases to deal with.

-- Dave