[Imports] Addition of building footprints in selected U.S. and Canadian cities

[William Morris]

Hello all,

Some colleagues at the UVM Spatial Analysis Lab have offered to submit
features to OSM that are derived from their high-res (1 meter) LULC
analyses at locations throughout the U.S. and around Toronto
(locations here: http://g.co/maps/h9qfx). Their work was primarily
intended to map urban tree canopy, but they've captured various
impervious surfaces as well, including excellent building footprints.

Here's an example near UMD of current OSM coverage vs. UVM-SAL
coverage: http://flic.kr/p/bseokW

Unless there is a tremendous need for tree canopy coverage in OSM, I
think it would be most useful to add just buildings, and possibly
parking, both of which are separable feature-by-feature. I'd be happy
to screen the imports for conflicts with existing OSM features, and to
bias toward those existing features in all cases.

Given that this is an import of several thousand features, what is the
best way to proceed?

Thanks for your help, in any case!

-Bill Morris
OSM user vtcraghead



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William Morris
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