[Talk-us] NHD status?

[Ian Dees]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:40 PM, David Carmean <dlc at halibut.com> wrote:

>
> If I begin to manually import some NHD shapefiles for my area, will I be
> wasting my time/others' time?  How is the bulk import work progressing?
> How do you effect a "freeze" so we don't end up with duplicates?


I think it might be a good idea to standardize on FCode -> tag mappings
first. What are you using the import the data?

Also, I've got a very robust SHP -> OSM (Now with Multipolygons!) converter
written in Java coming soon. Currently it converts the geometries in the
shapefile to OSM primitives and relations and applies the tags from the
shapefile attributes. The OSM-specific tagging will have to be added with
JOSM. I'm trying to think about a nice way to let the user apply OSM tags
based on SHP attributes and the context that you're in (multipolygon inner,
outer, linestring, etc.)

Anyway, to answer your question, I think we first need to:
1) Standardize on FCode -> Tags
2) Keep track of which HUC codes are imported and by whom. (I can start
working on this as a wiki page)
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