[Talk-us] NY: replacing county borders
Michal Migurski
mike at stamen.com
Tue Jan 4 01:11:26 GMT 2011
On Jan 3, 2011, at 5:07 PM, Richard Welty wrote:
> i've just started looking at replacing the USGS borders for New
> York State with the much better Tiger county borders and i wanted
> to solicit opinions/suggestions/cautions before commencing the
> process.
>
> i have more-or-less completed java code that converts the
> Census bureau County & County Equivalent Area files (ARC/INFO
> ASCII format) into .osm files. there is still a small amount of tweaking
> to do, but not much.
>
> i'm planning on replacing county borders one at a time, and taking
> care to consolidate shared ways between counties as i go. each
> new border will be examined in JOSM before it is uploaded, so
> this won't be an automated import process.
Sounds like a sane way forward to me. Are you using the new 2010 files that they're slowly releasing? Do you plan to keep all the FIPS info as you go?
-mike.
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