On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 1:39 AM, Kate Chapman <[email protected]> wrote: > Mike, > > How do you plan to make money off of this? When you buy road data from > Navteq and Teleatlas you can get their ZIP code boundaries with it so > everything lines up all nicely. Though the quality of that data is usually > more up to date than the ZCTAs.
I dont have a concrete plan, I must admit. But it looks like an area that is not covered yet. > > Unfortunately I don't see the ZCTAs as being the best way to create ZIP > boundaries. I don't see people fixing the boundaries, I have no idea where > my ZIP boundaries are for my area. I do know my own ZIP code, but that's > because I need it to give people my address. Creating ZIP boundaries from > address data makes the most sense to me, though on the other hand I don't > see us creating point level addressing for the whole country anytime soon > either. Well, > > If you want to import data I would suggest looking at some other sources. > There is a ton of local GIS data available that people want to put into OSM > they just need assitance doing so. If in the U.S. we are going to do a > combination of imports and community mapping I think starting at a local > level is the best answer. There is a ton of datasets out there and we > haven't really started asking around for them yet. I am not going to import any more mass data into the OSM main server!!!! What I am interested in is how to convert and prepare this data for people to use when they want to, if they want to. At least now I have a way to share the data (archive.org). Now my next step will be to extract the county data out and start the splitting process. As an exercise. The other thing that I am interested in is how to convert these areas into regions with shared edges. This is still interesting and exciting for me personally, because I am learning alot from it. thanks for all your help and advice. mike _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
