Josh, this sounds great! Unfortunately, you're headed in to really new territory. As far as I can tell, OSM doesn't have any methods in place for merging data in any meaningful sense, which sounds like what you need to do. (In other words, "Take X, Y and Z from this data, and Q and P from this data, and put them together.")
I can't help you much, but I wish you lots of luck. I've had my share of disagreements with people about how OSM should deal with imports and automated edits, so I wanted you to know that there are people out here who encourage this kind of work. ~ Peter Budny Josh Doe <[email protected]> writes: > I've been in contact with VITA, the agency responsible for GIS for the > state of Virginia, USA. They are interested in OSM utilizing their > road centerline data. VITA coordinates with all the localities in > Virginia to obtain this information, though most of it is sourced from > the Virginia Base Mapping Program (VBMP), which updates orthoimagery > of Virginia every few years with resolution between 6-inches and > 2-feet. This is the same data that is used for E911 in Virginia. From > what I've seen thus far this data is very good, and certainly much > better than the TIGER data. > > I'm totally new to importing, so I first wanted to see if anyone else > is interested in this project, though I am willing to take the time to > learn the process myself. Is the process used for importing the > Canadian database [1] the best method for doing this? > > Of course I'm all for the standard rules of imports, don't destroy > previous work, okay to blow away TIGER data in areas that haven't been > touched by other mappers, but conflate in other areas, etc. I'll be > taking this very slowly. > > Unfortunately the statewide RCL database doesn't contain address > ranges, though some localities does provide that information. For > example, Fairfax County provides RCL data in the public domain that > includes this information. This of course leads me to believe that it > is best to import the data on a locality by locality basis, if not > even smaller regions. > > Again, don't think I'm about to do a massive import all of a sudden. > Right now I'm looking for interest and feedback, and will begin to > flesh out a wiki article about this import. > > Regards, > -Josh > > [1]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Geobase_NRN_-_OSM_Map_Feature > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > -- Peter Budny \ Georgia Tech \ CS MS student \ _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
