<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hello wonderful list! Me (OSM userid: j03lar50n) and some other folks are making a strong push to digitize building footprints in our County, San Luis Obispo in California, U.S.A. - see relation here, if curious: <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/396496">http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/396496</a></div><div><br></div><div>What I am now looking at is a workflow to "join" or merge attributes from an existing Address Points layer that is in Esri format(s). What I wanted to talk about here was my proposed mapping from the Esri point file to OSM attributes and also the actual workflow.</div><div><br></div><div>I think I will list it like:</div><div>[Source attribute -> OSM attribute]</div><div><br></div><div>ADDRESS -> addr:housenumber</div><div>PREFIX -> addr:street:prefix</div><div>NAME -> addr:street:name</div><div>TYPE -> addr:street:type</div><div>SUFFIX -> addr:street:suffix</div><div>UNIT -> addr:street:suffix</div><div>FULLNAME -> addr:full</div><div>ZIP -> addr:postcode</div><div><br></div><div>*I borrowed some of my ideas on this mapping below from iandees. It would have been much uglier before his mention of a similar effort*</div><div><br></div><div><div><tag k="building" v="yes" /></div><div><tag k="addr:street:prefix" v="South" /></div><div><tag k="addr:street:name" v="Central Park" /></div><div><tag k="addr:street:type" v="Avenue" /></div><div><tag k="building:levels" v="2" /></div><div><tag k="chicago:building_id" v="403823" /></div><div><tag k="addr:housenumber" v="2807" /></div><div><tag k="addr:street" v="South Central Park Avenue" /></div></div><div><br></div><div>I was thinking that the UNIQUE_ID attribute in my original data would now be unnecessary to "merge" to OSM, since each building-footprint would have a Way ID - *AND* we were not using that identifier with any current/historic data, so not lost ties/connections with changing unique id.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The "join" or merge: I'm still open to workflow suggestions but I might use the ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap for this process. This will require Adding/Changing Feature Properties <a href="http://esriosmeditor.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Add/Change%20Feature%20Properties&referringTitle=Change%20OSM%20Editing%20Options">http://esriosmeditor.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Add%2fChange%20Feature%20Properties&referringTitle=Change%20OSM%20Editing%20Options</a> so I can do a Spatial Join of Address Points that touch building-footprints and transfer their attributes to the appropriate OSM attribute parallel. I wonder if this can be done easier with ogr2osm.py and JOSM however… </div><div><br></div><div>Looking for thoughts, advice, etc. - I appreciate your time _ joe</div></body></html>