Adding the list of mines and quarries in the USA
Posted by h4ck3rm1k3 on 10 December 2009 in English.from here:
http://tin.er.usgs.gov/mineplant/mineplant-fUS.kml
imported via gpsbable and josm
public domain.
OpenStreetMap
from here:
http://tin.er.usgs.gov/mineplant/mineplant-fUS.kml
imported via gpsbable and josm
public domain.
Discussion
Comment from orienteerer on 11 December 2009 at 04:13
I think this an example of an import done poorly. The imported mines do not even have names imported with them. They were all called "Mine." I would suggest that the import be reversed until it can be done better (keeping the names).
Also imports of a significant scale should be documented on the wiki at: osm.wiki/Import
Comment from h4ck3rm1k3 on 11 December 2009 at 08:21
Yes, I am working on fixing this import. The names will be updated. We can reverse them and I will reimport. Otherwise just wait and i am fixing my merge script. Sorry about that, josm killed the names on me!
Comment from h4ck3rm1k3 on 11 December 2009 at 08:47
osm.wiki/Potential_Datasources#National I have documented the sources that I found interesting on data.gov and will be fixing the names today.
Comment from h4ck3rm1k3 on 11 December 2009 at 12:04
I have reworked a dirt hack version of my merger.
What it does is use the note field to uniquely define what nodes are unique. It takes an osm file that contains the badly named node with ids and the orginal nodes with negative ids in it.
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kosova/%2Bjunk/openstreetmapkosova/revision/96#merge_duplicates_formines.pl
Comment from h4ck3rm1k3 on 11 December 2009 at 12:57
Ok, I have done a big update on the names
osm.org/browse/changeset/3348720 and others.
Please report any problems.
mike
Comment from h4ck3rm1k3 on 12 December 2009 at 00:15
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-Capitalize/Capitalize.pm
http://search.cpan.org/~summer/Lingua-EN-NameCase/