Oh brilliant, I'm glad someone is actually doing this. I really pushed for them to make the data free and then I left and didn't have the mental capacity/time to do an import.<div><br></div><div>Hampton Place - I think the road around Sandringham is the only gate I didn't get past with my GPS, though I'm not sure it was getting great accuracy when I made a trip round there.</div>
<div><br></div><div>It's obviously great to see the buildings, I made notes on the rest of the data they have and if it should be imported.</div><div><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:British_Columbia:Vancouver/UBC">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:British_Columbia:Vancouver/UBC</a></div>
<div>But you're now in charge of what goes in and what doesn't!</div><div><br></div><div>I'm CC'ing imports@ list, just for information. The process sounds fine to me.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On 8 February 2011 20:58, Paul Norman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:penorman@mac.com">penorman@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Whoops – sent my reply to myself, not the list</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color:#1F497D">Based on the feedback from local mappers, I did a test into Hampton Place, where there were no buildings before. This can be seen at <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.257597&lon=-123.234886&zoom=18&layers=M" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.257597&lon=-123.234886&zoom=18&layers=M</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">A couple of thoughts</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color:#1F497D">The roads here need verification. I didn’t touch them except to get their positioning right, but they need checking for names, access, etc. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Some buildings that are in the shapefile didn’t make it through ogr2osm. The shapefile has a number of buildings with invalid geometries that it doesn’t like. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">A site survey is needed to do addr:* data, but I find this a lot easier to do when I can print a map that has buildings and then write in each building the details.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal">
<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> Paul Norman [mailto:<a href="mailto:penorman@mac.com" target="_blank">penorman@mac.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, February 05, 2011 3:29 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:talk-ca@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">talk-ca@openstreetmap.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [Talk-ca] Proposed import: UBC Buildings</span></p></div></div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal">I’m proposing to import the UBC buildings, available at <a href="http://geodata.plantops.ubc.ca/data/OSM_Feb2011.zip" target="_blank">http://geodata.plantops.ubc.ca/data/OSM_Feb2011.zip</a></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal">This import will be done carefully, comparing imported data with existing data by hand, and may involve follow-up site surveys in case of conflicting keys.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">
Legal:</p><p class="MsoNormal">The data is dual-licensed as CC-BY-SA and ODbl by UBC.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Tagging:</p><p class="MsoNormal">Buildings will be tagged with building=yes, name=(value of name_at), ubc:building_num=(value of number), source=UBC Plant Ops 2011</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Data quality:</p><p class="MsoNormal">The data agrees with bing aerial imagery, GPS traces, and BC Government Openmaps imagery within the resolution of the imagery, after correcting for building lean in the imagery.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">The data is of *<b>ground</b>* level building outlines. The many overpasses will be dealt with in the import process.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Import process:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The buildings will be compared with existing OSM data, and the way which better represents the building will be kept. Tags will be merged, with any conflicts followed up by a site survey as there are some disagreements about names of minor buildings. Existing building entrances nodes will be merged onto any new buildings, as with any connecting ways. It’s a lot of work, but the only way to get an import like this right.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Imports will be done from pnorman_imports</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
Talk-ca mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org">Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org</a><br>
<a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca" target="_blank">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca</a><br>
<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Gregory<br><a href="mailto:osm@livingwithdragons.com">osm@livingwithdragons.com</a><br><a href="http://www.livingwithdragons.com">http://www.livingwithdragons.com</a><br>
</div>