Re: [Talk-us] bulk upload of data to OSM: roads, water, and orthos

2008-06-25 Thread Dave Hansen
On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 12:30 -0500, Ian Dees wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Dave Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 12:42 -0400, John Callahan wrote: > > Spatially it's no contest. I've attached just a few simple > images to > > sho

Re: [Talk-us] bulk upload of data to OSM: roads, water, and orthos

2008-06-25 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Dave Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 12:42 -0400, John Callahan wrote: > > Spatially it's no contest. I've attached just a few simple images to > > show what I mean. These show our new dataset in red vs TIGER 2007 in > > purple. Rememb

Re: [Talk-us] bulk upload of data to OSM: roads, water, and orthos

2008-06-25 Thread Dave Hansen
On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 12:42 -0400, John Callahan wrote: > Spatially it's no contest. I've attached just a few simple images to > show what I mean. These show our new dataset in red vs TIGER 2007 in > purple. Remember that the red lines match the hi-res photography. Wow. Hard to argue with that

Re: [Talk-us] US Hydrographic Data

2008-06-25 Thread Matthew Perry
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 8:48 PM, yellowbkpk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm just about done importing the NHD Data into a PostGIS database and can > begin exporting to OSM format. Is there anyone out there that has already > imported NHD data or drawn water bodies/rivers themselves that would want

Re: [Talk-us] bulk upload of data to OSM: roads, water, and orthos

2008-06-25 Thread Ted Mielczarek
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Paul Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dave wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 11:00 -0400, John Callahan wrote: > > > > > > To answer your question...Yes, our new road dataset is a significant > > > improvement over current TIGER data (which I obtained from > >

Re: [Talk-us] bulk upload of data to OSM: roads, water, and orthos

2008-06-25 Thread Paul Fox
dave wrote: > On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 11:00 -0400, John Callahan wrote: > > > > To answer your question...Yes, our new road dataset is a significant > > improvement over current TIGER data (which I obtained from > > http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrshp2007/tgrshp2007.html) > > Could yo

Re: [Talk-us] bulk upload of data to OSM: roads, water, and orthos

2008-06-25 Thread Dave Hansen
On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 11:00 -0400, John Callahan wrote: > > To answer your question...Yes, our new road dataset is a significant > improvement over current TIGER data (which I obtained from > http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrshp2007/tgrshp2007.html) Could you qualify that a bit for us? How

Re: [Talk-us] bulk upload of data to OSM: roads, water, and orthos

2008-06-25 Thread John Callahan
To answer your question...Yes, our new road dataset is a significant improvement over current TIGER data (which I obtained from http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrshp2007/tgrshp2007.html) According to [1] the best options for bulk uploading non-GPS data, is to use the API directly or JOSM.

Re: [Talk-us] bulk upload of data to OSM: roads, water, and orthos

2008-06-25 Thread Ian Dees
I'm trying to. As you might imagine, there's a LOT of data. So far just the flowlines are about 12 GB worth of PostGIS database. When I converted a single watershed to OSM data format, the 5MB file from NHD turned into a 42MB OSM file. My problem is that I have extremely fast disks (which makes pr

Re: [Talk-us] bulk upload of data to OSM: roads, water, and orthos

2008-06-25 Thread Ian Dees
This question applies to the NHD dataset, too. Has your hydro data shown up in the high-res NHD data yet? I have their complete dump as of April 2008 and was working on importing it to OSM. If your data is newer, I can replace your watershed data with the existing watershed data quite easily, sinc

Re: [Talk-us] US Hydrographic Data

2008-06-25 Thread Steven Walter
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:48 PM, yellowbkpk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm just about done importing the NHD Data into a PostGIS database and can > begin exporting to OSM format. Is there anyone out there that has already > imported NHD data or drawn water bodies/rivers themselves that would wan

Re: [Talk-us] US Hydrographic Data

2008-06-25 Thread Alex S.
yellowbkpk wrote: > I'm just about done importing the NHD Data into a PostGIS database and > can begin exporting to OSM format. Is there anyone out there that has > already imported NHD data or drawn water bodies/rivers themselves that > would want me to skip their areas? Some rivers connected to