[Talk-us] Completing the Appalachian Trail relation

[Josh Doe]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net> wrote:
> On 11/27/13 10:59 AM, Richard Welty wrote:
>>  if we want
>> club info, i'd suggest breaking up the relations where
>> needed and adding the clubs to those rather to the ways.
>>
> now that i've thought about it, i would like to suggest redoing
> the relations by the responsible clubs, as the division by states
> is arbitrary and has nothing to do with trail administration or with
> much of anything else, really.

If it weren't for the fact that the route was so long, I wouldn't see
any need to use more than a single relation. Given that it's sensible
to split it up into several relations, I like the idea of splitting up
by trail club more than by state, especially since there are portions
where it straddles borders. In short, +1.

And agreed about mass import, we need to do QC. I did notice there are
some sections which have been rerouted and need to be updated, and
some sections which apparently came from inaccurate TIGER data. After
filling in the gaps, by merging existing data as well as the ATC/NPS
data, we can do a good once over checking for consistency, and large
variances from the "official"-ish ATC/NPS data.

-Josh