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

[Kate]

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

With imports of NHD or data from USGS, EPA, and elsewhere, it would be
good to chop it up into chunks ... by states or smaller geographic
units if it's a very large dataset.

Since I (and others) are working in the DC area, it would be good to
know what's being imported for our region, and perhaps be involved
with QC.

One of the issues with data imports is when duplicate data gets added,
over what's already in OSM.  Some human judgment is needed to decide
whether the existing data in OSM is better or what's being imported,
and what to do where there are conflicts.

-Kate


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