[Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

[Ed Loach]

Richard wrote:

 

> The current Potlatch 2 codebase (not deployed yet) can pull
vectors

> directly out of VectorMap District shapefiles. Just load the
shapefile

> in the background, alt-click, and the road comes through.

> 

> If you wanted to do something helpful towards this, a mirror of
the

> unzipped shapefiles, perhaps with a nice index, would be really

> useful.

 

OK, I'm having a sleepless night and my mind was wandering. It
passed briefly over crowd-sourced uploading of the data if whoever
sets up the account can share login or create multiple logins (I
have the May 2011 TM Vectormap stuff here). But then I remembered
what was involved with using the original release and wondered if
things have changed. I refer mainly to reprojecting from OSGB to
WGS84, which required manual tweaks to every .prj file [1]. Would
this need doing before upload, or is it something that is now (but
not deployed yet) automated within Potlatch 2?

 

Ed

 

[1]
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Using_OS_Shapefiles#Re-projecting
_the_shape_file 

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