[Talk-us] bulk upload of data to OSM: roads, water, and orthos

[Ian Dees]

I'm trying to. As you might imagine, there's a LOT of data. So far just the
flowlines are about 12 GB worth of PostGIS database. When I converted a
single watershed to OSM data format, the 5MB file from NHD turned into a
42MB OSM file.

My problem is that I have extremely fast disks (which makes
processing/converting fast), but not very much space on these fast disks.
I've had to swap the data out to some slower disks as my database gets
bigger. The process has taken me a couple months of on and off work so far.

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 6:50 AM, John Callahan <diodata at udel.edu> wrote:

> So, you are importing the nation-wide coverage?  Wow, thanks!  Cool.
>
> - John
> ---- Original message ----
>
> *Date:* Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:36:54 -0500
> *From:* "Ian Dees" <ian.dees at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [Talk-us] bulk upload of data to OSM: roads, water, and
> orthos
> *To:* "Dave Hansen" <dave at sr71.net>
> *Cc:* "John Callahan" <john.callahan at UDel.Edu>, talk-us at openstreetmap.org
>
> This question applies to the NHD dataset, too. Has your hydro data shown up
> in the high-res NHD data yet? I have their complete dump as of April 2008
> and was working on importing it to OSM.
>
> If your data is newer, I can replace your watershed data with the existing
> watershed data quite easily, since I haven't started the import yet.
>
> -Ian
>
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:28 AM, Dave Hansen <dave at sr71.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 01:30 -0400, John Callahan wrote:
>> > I have the data as a shapefile.  What is the
>> > best way to submit them to OSM?
>>
>> How does your data compare to the TIGER data which is already there?  Do
>> you think it is worth the trouble of replacing what we have now?
>>
>> -- Dave
>>
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