[OSM-talk] TIGER / Mapnik suggestion

[Jon Burgess]

On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 20:03 +0100, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:
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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.

Mapnik rendering of about half the Tiger data is on my web server at:
http://www.jburgess.uklinux.net/tiger-mapnik.html

This is just the plain Tiger data I have not combined it with anything
from the OSM planet dumps. 

	Jon