Re: [Talk-us] Import discussions

2012-06-11 Thread Mike N
On 6/11/2012 10:54 AM, Alan Mintz wrote: Personally, I wish that all those that want to import building outlines would first think about the existing street network (this, after all, being OpenSTREETMap). So much of the US is still unedited TIGER 2005 data - mis-aligned, poorly connected,

[Talk-us] User adding hidden and non-official Interstate ref tags

2012-06-11 Thread James Mast
I've just notice that the user SD Mapman has added in the ref tags several hidden Interstates and removed what was originally in those tags (example: ref=US 27 ref=I 124). It seems he's done this for all of the hidden Interstates.http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SD%20Mapman/edits?page=5

Re: [Talk-us] Seeing things you don't care about in the database

2012-06-11 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 6/11/2012 7:17 PM, Mark Gray wrote: On one hand, I share the frustration of having lots of new data in an area making some of our tools slower and more difficult to use. In my area a building footprint import slowed down most of the mapping tools and land use polygons can get in the way of

Re: [Talk-us] Seeing things you don't care about in the database

2012-06-11 Thread the Old Topo Depot
From a slightly different perspective, there are, in fact, many solutions, each of which may be suboptimal in some respects. In any case, the scalability issues arising as a result of data growth will need to be dealt with. Some benefits may be had looking for optimizations to apply to data

Re: [Talk-us] Seeing things you don't care about in the database

2012-06-11 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with this. But I'm not sure that there is a solution. You can use XAPI/Overpass API to download only roads in an area, but you get conflicts (or worse, you move a node and screw up something else without