Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Importing Virginia road centerlines

2011-02-21 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Josh, Are you on the regular talk list? There's been a long discussion about the dangers of importing on that list. Since you're new to importing, I'd suggest reading that thread so you're familiar with the pitfalls. Where in Virginia are you? If you're near the DC area, a few of us have been

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Importing Virginia road centerlines

2011-02-21 Thread Josh Doe
Serge, I am, and am aware there are dangers, though I'm sure I'm not aware of all of them, which is why I'm going slowly. :) I'm in Fairfax County, so it would be good for me to attend that meeting. I've linked to the data on the wiki (Virginia [1] and Fairfax County [2]). Please let me know what

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Importing Virginia road centerlines

2011-02-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Katie Filbert wrote: How about just converting the data to OSM format. Break it up by small, manageable chunks such as census tracts. Post the files somewhere. Maybe OSM-US can help provide a place for them. I hear that Potlatch2 already has a mode where you can load a shape file as a

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Importing Virginia road centerlines

2011-02-21 Thread Dave Hansen
On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 19:25 +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote: What I like most about it is that you have a forced visual feedback - there is no way you can copy something into OSM without seeing what is actually there before you do. It would be really nice to add some JOSM layer functionality like

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Importing Virginia road centerlines

2011-02-21 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Dave Hansen d...@sr71.net wrote: On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 19:25 +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote: What I like most about it is that you have a forced visual feedback - there is no way you can copy something into OSM without seeing what is actually there before you

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Importing Virginia road centerlines

2011-02-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Ian Dees wrote: I think this is a great first step towards a merging/importing toolkit. A shapefile reading and rendering plugin for JOSM would be extremely nice to have and was the original intention of my shp-to-osm code. ... as long as we make absolutely sure nobody can simply hit

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Importing Virginia road centerlines

2011-02-21 Thread Dave Hansen
On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 19:59 +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote: Ian Dees wrote: I think this is a great first step towards a merging/importing toolkit. A shapefile reading and rendering plugin for JOSM would be extremely nice to have and was the original intention of my shp-to-osm code. ... as

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Importing Virginia road centerlines

2011-02-21 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi Josh, I've done a couple imports with varying levels of success. I live in Virginia (in Arlington) and would like to help. -Kate On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Josh Doe j...@joshdoe.com wrote: I absolutely agree about preserving user contributions. For any given segment in the Virginia

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Importing Virginia road centerlines

2011-02-21 Thread Steven Johnson
Josh, I like Katie's idea of breaking the data up into manageable chunks (counties?) and importing in incrementally. I'd be interested in helping with a few chunks. I'm in Arlington, too. Perhaps we'll meet at a DC area event? SEJ A serious and good philosophical work could be written