[Talk-us] [Imports] Import of Lakes from water.usgs.gov

[Ian Dees]

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 8:19 AM, jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com <
jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Instead of importing lots of data, I have imported only one lake for
> your review and approval.
>
> I have documented it here :
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/h4ck3rm1k3/diary/8927
>
> Water files, Bull Shoals Lake, Norfork lake
>
> I have been looking for the shape files for the Bull Shoals Lake, and
> Norfork lake in Arkansas.
>
> http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/dsdl/ds240/index.html
>
> It is mentioned here :
> http://msdis.missouri.edu/datasearch/metadata/utm/st_lake_cls_use.xml
> "The following water bodies were included in the NHD and staff edited
> the polygons with GIS software to more accurately depict the water
> body.
> "
>

The current NHD either includes these updates or is higher quality than this
historical stuff that the USGS has. I would recommend working on importing
the NHD rather than other datasets.

Also, lakes should not have a natural=coastline tag, they should be tagged
natural=water.
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