Steve Doerr wrote:
*From:* Ed Loach <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Tuesday, September 07, 2010 7:46 PM
*To:* 'Steve Doerr' <mailto:[email protected]> ;
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* RE: [Talk-GB] Dorset/Wilts county boundary wrong...is there
adefinitive source?
Steve wrote:
>> I think OS OpenData has a boundary data set. It would seem to
>> be a prime
>> candidate for a bulk import.
>No, please, no.
> At least not without someone manually checking every parish boundary
in case it is already in. The Norfolk ones are there
> but missing the admin_level tag on the ways so appear at rather low
zoom levels[1]; where I've started creating the
> district boundary relations (South Norfolk so far) adding the
admin_level to the ways as I go, the lines are starting to
> disappear to only show at higher zooms (not helped by me using
administrative_level=10 rather than admin_level=10 at
> first 'cos it's been a while since I worked on boundaries).
No problem: once the bulk import has been done, a bulk delete of any
boundaries not derived from OS Opendata is done, so there is no
potential for conflict/duplication.
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Steve
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Having worked on the import of OS data by hand of a the parish
boundaries that make up the East Riding of Yorkshire the process is made
much more complex than simply dumping OS data into OSM by the fact that
boundaries are shared across different administrative types and,
significantly, by physical objects too, such as watercourses.
Please do not consider dumping OS boundary data into the OSM database,
have the respect to only load data for an area that you have some
knowledge of and then take the very considerable time to investigate the
anomalies this throws up and sort them out with local surveys.
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Cheers, Chris
user: chillly
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