[Talk-us] NHD data - where to put preconverted .osm files

[Ian Dees]

OSM US has servers available for hosting this sort of thing.

Let me know when you've got data you'd like to distribute and we can
start transferring.

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Ben Supnik <bsupnik at xsquawkbox.net> wrote:

> Hi Y'all,
>
> This may be slightly premature, but if all goes well, my conversion of the
> latest NHD high-res data set to OSM format should complete within 24 hours.
>  The data set will be approximately 15 GB, zipped.
>
> So my question is: where to put this for users to download?  My main
> motivation for starting this conversion was:
>
> - To let users import, edit and merge NHD data without having to run a
> command-line based conversion and
> - To let users user the NHD data without having to extract it from the NHD
> website (which makes shapefiles hard/impossible to get).
>
> I could potentially throw this onto one of LR's servers for a while at
> least.  Does OSM have a more 'official' place to hold this kind of data?
>
> If/when we find things wrong with the conversion, I can re-run it.  From
> the discussion, some of the requested changes would require changes to the
> conversion toolchain.
>
> cheers
> Ben
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