Re: [Talk-us] Importing parks and schools for Anne Arundel County MD

2014-06-03 Thread Eric H. Christensen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:12:02PM -0400, Eric H. Christensen wrote: > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 05:17:59PM -0800, Paul Norman wrote: > > You'll need to develop a translation for the shapefiles that converts > > shapefile attributes to OSM tags, for u

Re: [Talk-us] Importing parks and schools for Anne Arundel County MD

2014-05-30 Thread Eric H. Christensen
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 09:55:01AM -0400, Phil! Gold wrote: > * Gregory Arenius [2014-05-30 00:52 -0700]: > > The only other thing that stuck out to me about the data was the B & A > > trail. You have a polygon for the trail which is awesome but I would also > > add in a properly tagged linear

Re: [Talk-us] Importing parks and schools for Anne Arundel County MD

2014-05-30 Thread Eric H. Christensen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 12:52:30AM -0700, Gregory Arenius wrote: > I wouldn't import the data per say, as in uploading the .osm file you > have. I would download the current OSM data for the area covered. Then, > in the import file I would check

Re: [Talk-us] Importing parks and schools for Anne Arundel County MD

2014-05-30 Thread Phil! Gold
* Gregory Arenius [2014-05-30 00:52 -0700]: > The only other thing that stuck out to me about the data was the B & A > trail. You have a polygon for the trail which is awesome but I would also > add in a properly tagged linear way. It will make it possible for routers > to use it as well as re

Re: [Talk-us] Importing parks and schools for Anne Arundel County MD

2014-05-30 Thread Gregory Arenius
Hi Eric, It looks like a good start to me. There were a couple of things that stuck out to me: many of the parks and schools are already in OSM, even if just as a GNIS point. Also, many of the curves in the import are over digitized. We don't need curves of that size to have that many points.

Re: [Talk-us] Importing parks and schools for Anne Arundel County MD

2014-05-29 Thread Eric H. Christensen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 05:17:59PM -0800, Paul Norman wrote: > You'll need to develop a translation for the shapefiles that converts > shapefile attributes to OSM tags, for use with ogr2osm or shp2osm.jar. > This is moderately technical. I used JO