On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Neskie Manuel<[email protected]> wrote:
> I could help with this. I want to know if anyone imported the > Aborignal Lands data from GeoBase and if not why? Do you really require an explanation from every single person that did NOT import Aboriginal Lands into the database? My answer would be "Because I haven't gotten there yet.", as I would suspect would be the same answer from a lot of people. We had a pretty blank slate not that long ago, and there is an overwhelming amount of data being imported currently, let alone the total sum of information that could be included in the OSM database. There are only so many hours in the day, and most people work on this as a hobby. Most of the bulk import is being done by a small handful of individuals. Many hands make light work. If you are interested in importing the Aboriginal lands, I'm sure that hundreds of us would be willing to encourage you to do so. More data is good data, especially when the more data being added is "good data" in the sense that it adds value to the database! > I would like to work on > importing this data. Therre are about 613 Aboriginal communities in > Canada with Reserves associated with each one. I could start a > planning page to layout the import. I already altered the > geobase2osm.py script to a geobase2osm_al.py and it does the job, but > it needs a bit more work, since this script would be producing areas > and not ways. Hmm, how do you define an area without creating a way to define the boundary? Import one of the reserves, and point us to it to see what it looks like on the map and in the database (it might not show on the map if the style sheets don't yet support it)... We'll let you know what we think. If you've got the script set up with what are considered good rules, the next step would be to run the script to import the aboriginal lands areas. The information is definitely an important part of the geographic fabric of Canada. James VE6SRV _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
