I am back at work, and arrived to IT caos. The computer in my office is not working at all, so I have to sneak in at other computers to do my work and daily read of webmics and other routine stuff. I have already sent request to the IT department to resolve the situation.

I am continue to work offline on the Vitoria import. There will be several files with layer data to sync with the server when I get the opertunity. I hope there are a computer or two with Java installed so I can do a few syncs.

Text layers will not be touched until I can work online again, meaning probably when I am back home in a months time or two. This is because the fact that I need to download underlying data to attach to the text, such as the streets for the street names, etc. I also need to find out how I can clean up the code to correct accented names, as my source have crumbled all the accents.

When I get back home I hope that I can get TwoNickles compiled to work properly on my computer, so that I don't have to ask for too much assistance. I also hope to get a splitter program that allows me to split nodes, ways and closed ways for each layer, as well as a script to automatically remove all blank spaces within layer names. That will help me a lot in future imports. I also would like to find out how I can use JOSM better to remove unwanted tags from the import data.

Example of reason to separate closed ways from non-closed ways in the split data:
Building layer (EDIFICACAO) can contain both closed ways (correct buildings) and non-closed ways (need attention). If I get these two separated in the splitter, I can quickly import all correct buildings, and than turn my attention to all the buildings that need correction. As it is now, I have to scan through each split of the layer to see if there are any non-closed ways, correct them, and upload the corrected split. If I could get all the closed ways uploaded in one go, than it will save me a lot of time. Vitoria alone have more than 77000 objects in the building layer alone, and many of these are non-closed ways.

If all goes well I will be finnished with analysing the data to when I get back home. As I get closer to the completion I will also contact the next planned import area to get the data out. I have not decided if I will do Vila Velha or Guarapari next. One idea is to do Vila Velha first so that there is continuety in imported data, another is to do Guarapari first as I am much more familiar with that area, and can do more checkup and corrections of the data import.