ian wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Paul Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > does the census bureau publish any sort of a "diff", or "delta" dataset? > > i'd think that just in terms of raw crunching that having just the > > differences from year to year would save a lot of work, both manual > > and CPU-cycles. > > > > > I don't think so, but since the data Dave imported into OSM was with the old > format (TIGER/Line) and the TIGER 2007/2008 data is in shapefile format, we > wouldn't really be able to use diff data anyway.
yes -- i was really thinking of ongoing work, since you brought up 2008. (it's not like this is the last time the to-import-or-not question will come up.) paul =--------------------- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arlington, ma, where it's degrees) _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us