[Talk-us] The Greening of Georgia

[Adam Schreiber]

Also, what's with the trunk roads?  Trunk is supposed to be
hierarchically above motorway, which is what interstates are tagged
with and trunk is being applied to limited access US Hwy's?

Adam

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Theodore Book <tbook at libero.it> wrote:
> Yes, It is USGS Landuse / Land Cover data.  It is 1:100k or 1:250k
> resolution, and also slightly dated.  I find it to be pretty good
> through zoom 14 or so, (see for example:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=34.4717&lon=-84.4287&zoom=14&layers=B000FTF)
> but there is some offset, especially around the Atlanta area, that will
> take some manual correction.
>
> Adam Schreiber wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Adam Schreiber <sadam at clemson.edu> wrote:
>>>> Has anyone else noticed some kind of import of park/forest data for
>>>> Georgia going on?  Does anyone know that source of the data?
>>>>
>>>> http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=34.043&lon=-84.233&zoom=9&layers=B000FTF
>>> Looks like OSM user "Liber" is uploading it.
>>>
>>> http://openstreetmap.org/user/Liber
>>>
>>> We need to be careful when uploading data like this that is very low
>>> resolution. As you zoom in closer, you can see that it loses meaning around
>>> zoom 9, which means it was probably a 1:1M or so resolution. Usually my
>>> cutoff is at 1:24K.
>>
>> I have sent Liber a message via the website.  Hopefully, we'll find
>> out what's going on.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Adam
>>
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