[Talk-us] NHD Dataset
Christopher Schmidt
crschmidt at metacarta.com
Mon Feb 16 15:56:57 GMT 2009
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:37:05AM -0500, Theodore Book wrote:
> I think it would be great to get it all in as soon as possible. I do
> see a few limiting factors, though:
>
> * In some places, a lot of work has been done manually entering water
> features. While I expect the NHD data is generally better, we have the
> tough issue of respecting other people's work (and not duplicating
> things in the database)
>
> * The upload speed seems to be a limiting factor - it is taking me some
> 70-80 hours to upload the one basis with bulk_upload.pl. I am not sure
> how many basins there are in the country, but it seems as though it
> could take a year if it were all done sequentially.
If you're not uploading from dev.openstreetmap.org, there's probably a
significant speedbump to be gained from doing so. Additionally, once the
0.6 API is up, we can group a lot of changes into changesets: a *huge*
chunk of the time spent when uploading remotely is spent on round trip
to the server, nothing else.
> * The scripts I used to convert the shapefiles to OSM only supported the
> features I found in this one basin. They should be easy to extend, (or
> someone else may have better ones), but they would need to be tested.
What script did you use for doing the polygons themselves? Did i t
support splitting of large polygons into smaller ways?
Regards,
--
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta
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