[OSM-talk] TIGER / Mapnik suggestion

[Robert (Jamie) Munro]

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Jon Burgess wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 13:34 +0100, Artem Pavlenko wrote:
>> On 04/09/07, Robert (Jamie) Munro <rjmunro at arjam.net> wrote:
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>>> Could the TIGER data (here http://sr71.net/~dave/osm/tiger/counties/) be
>>> short-cutted into the Mapnik DB by running all the OSM files through
>>> osm2pgsql?
>> Sure. I was thinking about loading some TIGER/Line (perhaps WA) before
>> FOSS4G. In fact we can have two PostgreSQL - one for planet dump and
>> other for TIGER, AND. It won't take years to setup and hopefully it'll
>> speed up loading data into main OSM db ;)
>>
>> Then people could see the data, and if they wanted to edit
>>> it, they could request their area gets put in the TIGER queue.
>> Yes, cool idea!
> 
> Do we want to import and render these tiles on the same server as the
> existing mapnik layer?

I'd vote yes.

> The tiles could appear as 2 distinct layers (main OSM or Tiger).
> Alternatively I could merge the data during the rendering to give one
> layer with just OSM and another with OSM+Tiger.

Ideally make one layer with the OSM data + Tiger data that hasn't been
imported already. I don't think we need an OSM without Tiger layer. T at H
will provide that.

Robert (Jamie) Munro
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