On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Henry Haselgrove <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>         > Your selection of 10k features from 150k total is not clear to
> me.  Why these 10k and do you plan to also import the rest later?
>
> I only have very tentative plans for the rest at the moment. It is an
> enormous amount of data, and I estimate it would require around 400
> changesets. It is something that would need to be planned and carried out
> over a significant period of time. I want to import what I consider to be
> the most important part of the data sooner rather than later. However, I
> realize that "all features having a name, plus all permanent lakes" is a
> somewhat arbitrary definition of "important". Also, this is my first ever
> bulk import, so I wanted to start with a modest sized data set, and use the
> experience gained from that to help me develop plans for future imports.


I think it's good to start small.
There's a LOT of imported data in the USA that never gets touched again,
and is of limited value for navigation or map use.

+1 for subsetting the data.
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