[Talk-us] Importing Virginia road centerlines

[Richard Weait]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Peter Budny <peterb at gatech.edu> wrote:
> Josh, this sounds great!  Unfortunately, you're headed in to really new
> territory.  As far as I can tell, OSM doesn't have any methods in place
> for merging data in any meaningful sense, which sounds like what you
> need to do.  (In other words, "Take X, Y and Z from this data, and Q and
> P from this data, and put them together.")
>
> I can't help you much, but I wish you lots of luck.  I've had my share
> of disagreements with people about how OSM should deal with imports and
> automated edits, so I wanted you to know that there are people out here
> who encourage this kind of work.

Tell us what you really think, Pete! ;-)

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