[OSM-talk] TIGER in Santa Barbara County, CA

[Karl Newman]

On Dec 12, 2007 5:07 PM, Alex S. <maps at swavely.com> wrote:
> Matthew Perry wrote:
> > I'd hate to think that what myself and a few others started in the
> > southern part of the county is holding back the entire county from
> > getting uploaded.
>
> It's more a case of DaveH not wanting to dump a bunch of data on you
> without you knowing about it in advance.  So, he's uploading empty and
> requested counties first.  You can also get a processed-but-not-uploaded
> .osm file from him to help with manual merging, too.

I was the one that gave DaveH a list of generally empty CA counties
and specifically excluded several SoCal counties (including Santa
Barbara) because of the not-insignificant mapping you and others had
done. The idea was to allow a manual merge because it's difficult to
do after it's done. Someone later authorized the upload of LA, Orange,
etc. counties but left Santa Barbara. However, looking at the TIGER
status page (http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~daveh/tiger/stats.html), it
may be too late for Santa Barbara--it's uploading now as I write.

Karl