I'm interested in helping, but with the caveat that I don't have much free time available to commit.
- Dan On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Apollinaris Schoell <ascho...@gmail.com>wrote: > we have some very detailed data for vegetation in California and try to > make a plan for an import. > Has anyone done something similar for US. Any locals interested to help? > It's a huge dataset and needs some major work to be really useful. > some challenges are > - simplification to reduce number of nodes. there are many redundant nodes > and duplicates > - smoothing edges, resolution is ~5m grid and rendering looks ugly this > way, some spline interpolation could really make it similar to USGS maps > style > - areas duplicate nodes/lines in shape files, this should be converted to > line segments and relations to avoid duplicate lines in osm. Still no simple > solution for that as far as I know > - filter out useless features, urban, residential, … areas are already > covered in better ways and should be skipped > - propose tagging scheme, current tags don't support all the details in > this data but should be used as much as possible to get rendering for most > features > - find local experts to verify fix and upload the data. > - documentation on the wiki >
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