On the subject of arkansas, I was working on the norfork lake and the gov hydrology data would be well worth importing.... http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00380.html http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/361097 http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/dsdl/ds240/polygon/g36092.zip mike
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Pieren <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Ian Dees <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> To clarify what I meant about parcel data: I'm assuming you mean parcels >> in terms of household property boundaries. This data is difficult to fit >> into the OSM data model because it a) updates frequently and b) has an >> "official" source that is better to use than OSM. If you can extract >> addressing from the parcel data then we can use it to do better geocoding, >> but loading OSM with parcel data puts us closer to a "data dumping grounds" >> than an active, community-built map. >> >> > For information, in France (65 M inhabitants), we have all the tools to > import parcels for about 2 thirds of the territory but we all agreed to not > do this for the same reasons as listed above. > > Pieren > > _______________________________________________ > Imports mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports > > -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova and Albania flossk.org flossal.org
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