Re: [Talk-us] NHD Dataset

2009-02-16 Thread Adam Schreiber
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Theodore Book tb...@libero.it wrote: * In some places, a lot of work has been done manually entering water features. While I expect the NHD data is generally better, we have the tough issue of respecting other people's work (and not duplicating things in the

Re: [Talk-us] NHD Dataset

2009-02-16 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:37:05AM -0500, Theodore Book wrote: I think it would be great to get it all in as soon as possible. I do see a few limiting factors, though: * In some places, a lot of work has been done manually entering water features. While I expect the NHD data is generally

Re: [Talk-us] NHD Dataset

2009-02-16 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:24:21AM -0600, Ian Dees wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Christopher Schmidt crschm...@metacarta.com wrote: What script did you use for doing the polygons themselves? Did i t support splitting of large polygons into smaller ways? Chris, I was

Re: [Talk-us] NHD Dataset

2009-02-16 Thread Ian Dees
It looks like the solution is to use Advanced Multipolygons: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Relation:multipolygon#Advanced_multipolygons Does anyone want to start writing an algorithm to nicely slice up polygons into small enough chunks? On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Rev. Theodore

Re: [Talk-us] NHD Dataset

2009-02-16 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:55:51PM -0600, Ian Dees wrote: It looks like the solution is to use Advanced Multipolygons: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Relation:multipolygon#Advanced_multipolygons Does anyone want to start writing an algorithm to nicely slice up polygons into small