[Talk-us-massachusetts] Adding McKinstry Brook

[Greg Troxel]

"Peter Cooper Jr. via Talk-us-massachusetts"
<talk-us-massachusetts at openstreetmap.org> writes:

> On 12/21/2020 12:41 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> If you are comfortable munging python code and dealing with shapefiles,
>> you can probably get to the point of using these sources.  Probably JOSM
>> can read shapefiles, in which case you could do this without coding.  If
>> you aren't using JOSM and you want to do this sort of editing, I suggest
>> learning it.
> Hmm; while software engineering is my day job I've somehow managed to
> not pick up Python yet. I guess I was hoping that there was some easy
> way to import more MassGIS layers into the iD editor or into OSM
> directly. Having the L3 Parcel data and the 2019 Orthos right there in
> iD is pretty nice and easy. I was hoping somebody had just already
> developed a way to just copy a stream that's in MassGIS data over into
> OSM. If there's nothing already built, while it sounds like a fun
> project I'm unlikely to be able to dedicate the time to do it myself.

Once you "import a layer into OSM directly" you have cross into "doing
an import".  Because of this  I don't want to send anybody an osm-format
file of the whole layer.   Although it's pretty easy to make yourself.

If iD can load a geojson file as a background layer, then this should be
doable.  But I don't really use iD.  I think josm can do this, but it
can load shapefiles.

>> If you just want to add one stream that you are cross-checking with
>> imagery and personal knoweldge, I'd say go for it and don't worry too
>> much.
> Yeah, that's basically all I'm doing. I mean I know many of the road
> crossings for this stream, but it's not like I've walked along the
> entire length of the stream or anything like that. I guess I am just
> worrying too much.

The OSM  way is that data that's mostly ok is an improvement and then
making it more accurate can be done later.  As long as the quality is
good enough that people won't say 'not having it would be better'.  A
tough line to draw sometimes.

>> If you start to think about "import all the streams in MA", that's an
>> import, needs plan/discussion/approval and it's at least 10x harder than
>> you think.
> Oh no, you're thinking much more ambitious here than I am. :)

Great - just wanted to give the caution in case.


I got your changeset link - that's good enough.   I'll have   a look at
pulling the stream later.
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