My concern would be with 3. It is possible that someone has edited imported Geobase data after the import.
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 8:51 AM, G. Michael Carter <[email protected]> wrote: > Sam always says I should let people know what I'm up to. Today I'm > actually going to listen... ;-) > > I'm working in three areas currently, outward in circles around: Orangeville > (040P), Pickering (030M), and Rock Point PP (030L). (and trying to pull in > Lake Ontario shore line) > > I'm creating some duplicate roads, temporarily, in the process. I wanted > to detail my process here in case anyone notices them and starts scratching > their head. > > The process I'm following: > > 1. Remove all existing OSM objects from CanVec grid. (mostly stuff I've > already uploaded) > 2. Merge with existing OSM data on the layer. > 3. Delete any "attribution:GeoBase highway=*" roads. Trying to preserve > any roads that CanVec doesn't have but it's hard since a lot of the areas > I'm doing don't have any GPS tracks. > 3a. Where the duplicates come in... I'm leaving any roads that go off grid, > at least to an area I haven't processed yet. Then when I get to that area I > remove/merge them. > 4. Go over the area and merge/delete any roads manually added or that have > no source (where no GPS track) > 5. Merge any duplicate objects, that I missed or previously existed. > > Areas I'm staying away from: Toronto! I'm not going near that one, too much > existing or conflicting data. I'll let someone living in Toronto to pick up > that mess. :-) > > Mikey > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
