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

[jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com]

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Any links? I have not seen that yet. This is pretty detailed, the data
that I found.

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

Yes, we got it now. the Relationship is water, the coast parts are coastline.
eg : http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/361097


thanks all for your help.
mike