[OSM-talk] Re: [OSM-dev] MassGIS dataset

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 03:57:01PM +0200, Lars Aronsson wrote:
> Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> > I agree that the primary target of OSM should be places where no 
> > free geodata exists. But acting as a way to store, improve, 
> > export, and make access to accurate geodata is extremely 
> > important too,
> 
> I'm just a bit worried about the export part.  Will we be able to 
> reassemble these edited line segments back into something useful? 
> When will we see a proof-of-concept of the whole cycle: 
> import-edit-export-use?  Could you load a tiny fraction of the 
> MassGIS data into OSM, edit it, reexport it, and use it instead of 
> the original MassGIS data?  It could make a nice conference 
> presentation.

Sure. I've got the import tools written. I've got the export tools
written -- that is, converting the export, not actually getting it out
of the databse.

The edit tools are OSM.

The problem is that there's no way to get the data out, and right now
I'm holding back on putting the data in. So it won't happen until OSM is
in better shape technically.

I don't think it's that interesting of a demo, but I'm happy to do so --
there's already the Boston Freemap (http://boston.freemap.in), which can
switch to using OSM-converted exports as soon as the data in OSM is
better than the data from MassGIS.

-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer