[OSM-talk] WDB II rivers

[Scott Walde]

Today I converted some of the data from the CIA WDB II data into OSM 
files ready to open in JOSM.  Specifically, I did the North American 
rivers data.  It turns out that it's not very accurate, but you might 
find they provide a useful starting point.

you can download a tarball containing about 1300 .osm files.  Each one 
corresponds to a "Segment" of the WDB data.  The filenames consist of 
the lat/lon boundaries of that segment, so you should be able to find 
the river you're interested in with just a little bit of work.

Please don't just start uploading these files.  They're not good enough 
for that.  Load the file in JOSM, load Landsat images for the area, and 
start moving nodes.

The tarball is here: http://www.somethingnew.ca/files/narivers.tar.gz
and you can read more about the data source here: 
http://www.evl.uic.edu/pape/data/WDB/

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