The US forum is pretty low traffic (a couple posts this year), so I guess a topic wouldn't bother anyone:
https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewforum.php?id=20 There's also a michigan channel on the osm us slack. ( https://slack.openstreetmap.us/ ) On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 10:58 PM Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > > (Is there a Michigan-specific forum that we could take this to? We're > probably boring the daylights out of most of talk-us.) > > On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 9:16 PM Max Erickson <maxerick...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The management units in the data are subunits of the state forests > > still. For instance, "Gwinn Forest Management Unit" is/was part of the > > Escanaba River State Forest. > > > > The question is which data is better to present to the average end > > user. I guess if the state isn't using the state forest names anymore > > it makes sense to have the management units in OSM. But then because > > people know the older names, does it make sense to also have the state > > forests? > > What I see in the data doesn't match your description. 'Unit_name' > appears to be one of sixteen large rectangular regions, and then > 'management_name' is a fairly small region. > > I've sliced the data both ways, and put the results in > https://kbk.is-a-geek.net/tmp/mi_sf.zip, so that you can open the data > in JOSM and see what's up with it. DO NOT IMPORT - the translation is > very rough and doesn't even pass JOSM's validation - I'm simply > sharing it so that locals can see whether either division makes any > sense in the local context. > > Simply coalescing the data led to topological problems, as I > anticipated. I did some jiggery-pokery with ST_Buffer in PostGIS to > force the topology to be consistent. The result is that every parcel's > boundary is set back 2.5 metres from where it was in the original data > set. This is surely no big deal as far as the map is concerned, but > cuts way back on the validation errors. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
