[Talk-us] 2009 TIGER Shapefiles now available

[Mike N.]

It would be handy to get just the diff files.   I did a diff in SQL against the named ways, but it would be handy to have a diff .OSM file for everyone to start with that contains all changes.   I'm not sure how to do that.


From: Dale Puch 
Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 1:45 PM
To: talk-us at openstreetmap.org 
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] 2009 TIGER Shapefiles now available


Reasonably easy to do yourself with Ian's java shp-to-osm.  The worst part I have had was county wide osm converted tiger files in JOSM.  But tat can be avoided several ways.
http://redmine.yellowbkpk.com/projects/list_files/geo  Attached is an old rules file I used as an example.  Be sure to change the source field.

A side note, with JOSM is there a way to copy from one layer to another while maintaining position?  I have done it a few times in the past with copy and paste and then repositioning, but I would prefer to maintain the exact position.

Dale


On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Sam Vekemans <acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com> wrote:

  Hi,
  Is anyone just simply running a country wide diff set from 2008 tiger,
  and then converting the files into  .osm format and simply making them
  available, so local area mappers can claim their areas and copy-in
  what ever they wish?
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