<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 5:28 PM, Max Erickson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:maxerickson@gmail.com" target="_blank">maxerickson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">When I looked at the Microsoft buildings in Detroit, I thought a lot<br>
of time the existing OSM footprint was better than the Microsoft<br>
footprint. Maybe the directions could encourage importing mappers to<br>
copy the height to the existing footprint in those cases (there seem<br>
to be ~1500 existing buildings with high overlap)?<br>
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I used a command like<br>
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ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" /share/gis/extracts/cc<br>
/share/gis/MS_Buildings/Texas/ -97.55 27.6 -97.25 27.85<br>
<br>
to isolate the Corpus Christi area, this is quite a lot of objects,<br>
~93,000 footprints. Was there any discussion on slack of trying to<br>
improve the categorization of the buildings during the import? Any<br>
other salient info from the slack chat?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Other than oil storage tanks there are only a few hundred buildings in Corpus Christi. Most of this is new - over 93,000 outlines as you stated.</div><div><br></div><div>The conversation on Slack was who is going to use the data. The limited Texas data I've seen is not that great, at least compared to what I'm used to in parts of Washington State. There is a reluctance for the federal government, USGS and FEMA, to use crowdsourced data. With the magnitude of destruction, Its possible that will change. From last years flooding in Louisiana, FEMA and USGS were looking for volunteers to collect data on where buildings were located. Just a node, no outline. I suspect the work we do could be useful. </div><div><br></div><div>Clifford</div></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>@osm_seattle<br></div><div><a href="http://osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us" target="_blank">osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us</a></div><div>OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch</div></div></div>
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