[Talk-us] Road Expansions and Seattle Imports (if you're the Seattle importer, please read!)

[Serge Wroclawski]

Hey all,

You've probably noticed I haven't mentioned anything about the road
expansion code lately. That's because after a week of testing, and
help from two community members, it's done. But I haven't uploaded it,
and there's a good reason.

That reason is similar to what the Seattle building importers are seeing:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/seattle-buildings/diary

And similar to what the Kate and Katie in DC when they tried to do
building, and I did parking lot imports.

In their case, this left DC with only partial building coverage, and
in the case of parking lots, I'm still fixing the mess of ways which
share the same geometry (and often the same nodes).

I hope the Seattle person/people will be cleaning this up, and not
leave their import in the current state.

Getting back to the current TIGER expansion, I decided it would be a
mistake to try a large scale import without having some way of
ensuring that the uploads were being done correctly, and so I've been
working on a queue based uploader. It will take these issues into
account, handle retries, etc.

I'd like to suggest that if you're the Seattle person, you work with
me on this, and we can solve both our problems.

- Serge