[Talk-us] Arkansas state road data "Open The Data"

[jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com]

thanks for sharing this.
I was looking into the lake norfork mapping, there is very little there.
are the lakes and rivers of AR also in this dataset?
mike

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 3:23 AM, Mike N. <niceman at att.net> wrote:
> Learon Dalby gave a talk at US State of the Map regarding road centerline
> data.   For slides of the presentation, see
>
> http://www.slideshare.net/learondalby/open-the-data
>
>  My summary is that he has gathered each county's GIS data over a period of
> time and now has the entire state's data with a license (PD?) that allows
> importing into OSM.   I haven't looked in detail at the Arkansas TIGER data,
> but it was likely gathered before all roads had been assigned names.
> Possibly the TIGER geometry is not as good as the current data from the
> counties.   The proposal is
>
>  1.)  Use the GIS road centerline data to replace untouched TIGER data in
> OSM across the state of Arkansas.
>  2.)  Establish a system to allow updates to the multiple databases over
> time - not necessarily an automated 'sync operation', but a bidirectional
> feed of changes.   OSM changes within an area would be fed back to the state
> GIS, then on to the county GIS where they would decide to use it if
> applicable.    County changes would propagate back to OSM in the form of
> some type of change set that someone could review and apply to OSM data if
> applicable.    In OSM terms, this would include the edits that break a way
> into many smaller ways for bridges, speed limits, lane counts, traffic
> lights, surface, sidewalk attributes, public transportation routes, etc.
>
> In the possibly similar case of Massachusetts,  I cannot tell from the wiki
> whether they used the state centerlines instead of TIGER, or if they had
> replaced TIGER with MASSGIS data.
>
>  It is of utmost importance to preserve any roadways touched by a human
> mapper.     In AR, these roads consist of mostly Interstates and US highways
> that have been fixed up for proper routing and relations.  To a lesser
> extent, some edits are from the attack of the duplicate node bots near
> county borders.   I did a study for the state of Arkansas to determine how
> many roads have been touched so far:
>
> https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AtqECyNeMFlGdF9PTl8yR1dVdzJUZERyMEZtcG5sT0E&hl=en
>
>  For purposes of this study, I have treated the Un-abbreviation bot edits as
> unedited, if version=2.   The Un-abbreviation bot can be run again later if
> necessary, or applied to the incoming AR GIS data before importing it.
>
>  Note that there are 3 worksheet tabs on the bottom of the spreadsheet.
> There is one active mapper in the city of Little Rock; he has touched many
> roads as he has improved the map in that area.      Carl Anderson gave an
> excellent talk on their experience in importing county GIS data in some of
> the Atlanta region.     Based on his experience, it is unlikely that the
> entire process can be automated.  It will be some form of manually deleting
> the unedited TIGER ways, then stitching the AR GIS data to any existing
> edited roads.    Most roads have not been touched, so remote, unedited
> counties would import with less labor.  Any techniques used here could be
> applied to other states with PD road centerline data.
>
>  This is the limit of my knowledge - I have no experience with the tools
> Carl mentioned that can assist with importing data into an existing system,
> and I haven't looked at the AR GIS data to see what other challenges may lie
> ahead.   So I'm passing the ball to the next data import enthusiast...
>
>
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