[Talk-us] NHD status?

[Ian Dees]

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 6:08 PM, David Carmean <dlc at halibut.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 07:52:38AM -0500, Ian Dees wrote:
>
> > I think it might be a good idea to standardize on FCode -> tag mappings
>
> Is Matthew Perry still working on this as well?
>

I don't think so. He made a great first try at a python script, but I think
he stopped there.


>
> I think the mapping of FCode to OSM features is going to be very sparse,
> and
> I'm currently wishing we had an entire new set of "hydrology=something"
> feature
> tags :)


There really are only a few features I'd like to see put into OSM:
 - rivers
 - lakes
 - swamp areas
 - drainage ditches
 - reservoirs

All of these things have descriptions in NHD, but not all of them have
descriptions in OSM. Perhaps we should make some tagging proposals, get them
approved/discussed, then continue with the import.
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