This is really cool. I have a few comments and questions about how this will work, but I think this will be a great way to import the NHD.
1. Can you edit points and locations before you approve a feature? This would be nice for both inaccurately located points, but also for integrating with existing water features. 2. I didn't quite understand marking feature as complete. In your email, you said that you marked ponds that didn't show up as complete. Could there be different levels of approval/rejection of objects so that complete= move into OSM database, remove= remove from import database, survey= can't tell from bing imagery. 3. A few tagging nits: a. I still think that 46006 streams without names should be included. I don't know if it is from being in a wet place, but many streams in NC that are a couple meters wide, have road bridges over them and flow noticeably have no name (at least in the NHD). b. I would rather have the dam as way features than node features. Although it probably would be best to not have every little water pond's dam imported. James On Sun, 2012-11-18 at 19:52 -0800, Paul Norman wrote: > For the last couple weeks I've been working on getting NHD into P2 and I've > now got a working preview at > http://took.paulnorman.ca/potlatch2/potlatch2.html > > This P2 instance will take you to the east side of Missouri in the 0714 > basin. This is the south end of the 07 region and covers part of Illinois. > > The NHD layer is being served by snapshot-server off of my home computer so > it may be slow as it's not properly deployed and it's behind a home internet > connection. > > With the styles that come up by default the gray lines with orange outlines > are features from NHD which aren't marked as completed and the fainter gray > with green have been marked as completed. I've marked some ponds as > completed where there weren't any signs of them on the imagery. > > You can change the NHD style by going to Background -> Load Vector File. > > The NHD tagging doesn't represent a finished product. > > A few warnings: > > - NHD represents riverbanks as giant polygons. These slow down my server and > it may take a while to respond. That's why I chose this starting point to > view, there aren't any giant ways right beside it. > > - The tagging is not yet complete. The main impact in this basin is that > some points may have unconverted data. I believe all ways will be > appropriately tagged. > > - The geometries are not simplified. > > - Snapshot-server doesn't fit nicely into any of the traditional > classifications of imports. In any case, at this point it's a proof of > concept. > > - I may at times randomly shut off the server as I do work with it. > > - There may be some scaling issues with snapshot-server > > - The default cyclestreets style for the NHD layer is not great > > More information on the P2 merging tool can be be found at > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potlatch_2_merging_tool > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
