On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Richard Welty <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 10/24/10 11:12 PM, Mike N. wrote: > >> Mike, are you specifically interested in Arkansas? The state level >>> data might be better than TIGER and the state is very interested in >>> getting it into OSM. >>> >> >> I was researching Arkansas based on some SOTM-US 2010 discussions. Other >> than that, I don't have local knowledge of the area or know any active >> mappers there. >> >> Arkansas could be interesting in the sense that the state data includes >> a full set of current (and accurate?) county centerlines. It could serve >> as the prototype to develop tools and methods to bring in TIGER 2010 data >> from other areas. >> > if you're interested in the challenges of imports, perhaps the osm us > technical & imports and working group is worth looking into: > > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States/Working_Groups/Technical > Thanks for taking the words out of my mouth Richard! I was going to suggest this. After I'm done traveling this month I plan on starting at least a thread on the mailing list here (the goal being a telephone call or similar) to talk about an import tool that would handle all or most of these issues.
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