Re: [OSM-talk] uStream .tv broadcast 2pm PST 5pm EST - geobase import

2009-01-26 Thread Craig Leat
Hi Sam wrote: Correction: for step 8, the correct word is MERGE (not purge). snip /snip -unfortunatly, the only program that can do this is ArchGIS (i think) -is there any opensource equivelant that can do this? uDig has a light weight conflation tool:

Re: [OSM-talk] uStream .tv broadcast 2pm PST 5pm EST - geobase import

2009-01-26 Thread Greg Troxel
Russ Nelson r...@cloudmade.com writes: On Jan 25, 2009, at 7:17 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: So I think this is really 3-way merge process, and there needs to be something that looks at each item in the new dump, finds any previous import, and checks if it has been modified. Bulk imports

Re: [OSM-talk] uStream .tv broadcast 2pm PST 5pm EST - geobase import

2009-01-26 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 26 Jan 2009, at 14:07, Greg Troxel wrote: Russ Nelson r...@cloudmade.com writes: to the dedicated user. If somebody has edited it, then it belongs to them now, and won't be touched. Then, we should rely on maplint to I should set up JOSM, but potlatch doesn't seem to show the last

Re: [OSM-talk] uStream .tv broadcast 2pm PST 5pm EST - geobase import

2009-01-25 Thread Greg Troxel
For government/bulk imports -where we know that updates are available; how is it dealt with? I was just thinking about this; there is a lot of MassGIS data now, and some of it is wrong (wrong location, streets that don't actually exist), although 99.8% of it seems very good. I've edited

Re: [OSM-talk] uStream .tv broadcast 2pm PST 5pm EST - geobase import

2009-01-25 Thread Russ Nelson
On Jan 25, 2009, at 7:17 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: So I think this is really 3-way merge process, and there needs to be something that looks at each item in the new dump, finds any previous import, and checks if it has been modified. Bulk imports should always be done under a user

Re: [OSM-talk] uStream .tv broadcast 2pm PST 5pm EST - geobase import

2009-01-24 Thread Thomas Wood
2009/1/24 Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com: In light of France getting the OK for post codes; Canada might also, so there needs to be a way to accomidate it. We should be able to update the geobase import talk page post the unanswered questions. I thought it was Iceland with the

Re: [OSM-talk] uStream .tv broadcast 2pm PST 5pm EST - geobase import

2009-01-24 Thread Yann Coupin
I dunno about Iceland, but you're right about France, it is the official land registry map that we got access to. Yann Le 24 janv. 09 à 23:30, Thomas Wood a écrit : 2009/1/24 Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com: In light of France getting the OK for post codes; Canada might also, so

Re: [OSM-talk] uStream .tv broadcast 2pm PST 5pm EST - geobase import

2009-01-24 Thread Sam Vekemans
Thanks, ya your right :) The show went good (IMO) as the question is now more apparent. For government/bulk imports -where we know that updates are available; how is it dealt with? The solution is this IMO: 1- take the latest OSM Data, as a file; the exact size area of the shape file to be