Hi Emilie, Apologies for not replying in French - although I have an interest in what you're doing, I don't have the language skills to speak to you about it natively.
I'm very pleased to see that the Corine data import is going forward and am looking forward to seeing the results when it's complete. At my place of employment we make some use of OSM (see [1] for example), including in France, and we are considering using it to a much greater degree in the future. We are having ongoing discussions, however, about OSM completeness surveys - in short there are people who want to use OSM but want to be able to be explicit about what areas are covered and which are not. Which seems fair enough... I was wondering if the Corine data import could give us such statistics for France. Is it possible to say, for examples, how many polygons exist that are tagged landuse:residential that don't overlap a way tagged highway:residential ? Is this the sort of thing other people see value in? Regards, Joseph [1] http://mapdata.thehumanjourney.net/office.html 2009/9/27 Emilie Laffray <emilie.laff...@gmail.com>: > Hello, > > I am sending a quick message to mention that the French import of Corine > has started. We created an user for the occasion: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/CLCF06 > > The polygons are already starting to appear all over France, since we > are uploading polygons by polygons. The import will take about a week to > complete. The final green light was given by the French community after > reviewing some mapnik overlay and review of the logic used for the > calculation of overlaps. > The maximum size for a way is 2000 nodes. > I hope you will enjoy looking at France and see polygons appearing as > much as we do currently. > This is the first phase of the import. We are importing only polygons > with little overlaps with existing OSM geometries. The scripts will be > published this week. The goal of this import was to minimize any impacts > on the user who have been working hard in completing the map of France. > The second phase will be the use of a web interface to allow individual > users to import polygons that were not imported manually. The interface > will be made public once the main import will be finished. > > Emilie Laffray > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
