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<span>Nate Wessel wrote on 2020-04-05 12:12 PM:</span><br>
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<p>Hello Imports list, <br>
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<p>I am proposing an import of ~57,000 buildings in Toronto,
Ontario. <br>
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<p>About a year and a half ago, there was an import process begun
for building footprints across most of Canada. That effort made
rapid progress in Ontario before being halted due to disputes
about data quality, lack of prior discussion, and other issues.
Hundreds of thousands of buildings in Toronto were imported at the
time, though substantial gaps in coverage still remain. The goal
of this import is to fill those gaps within the City of Toronto,
using data from the same source as the original import.</p>
<p>I believe all of the issues that got in the way of the initial
effort have been addressed by this import plan, including:<br>
1. broader discussion and consensus building with the local
community prior to import<br>
2. using smaller, more manageable tasks <br>
3. simplifying geometries before import<br>
4. having a manageable plan for orthogonalizing buildings<br>
5. not overwriting user-contributed buildings by default (i.e.
importing only non-conflated buildings)<br>
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<p>The import plan is documented on the wiki:
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href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Toronto_building_import"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Toronto_building_import</a><br>
and a tasking manager has been set up for the project:
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href="http://tasks.osmcanada.ca/project/175" moz-do-not-send="true">http://tasks.osmcanada.ca/project/175</a></p>
<p>Please let me know if there are any remaining issues with the
plan, reasons why it shouldn't proceed, areas needing better
documentation, etc. <br>
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<p>Best,<br>
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<p> Nate Wessel<small>, PhD<br>
Planner, Cartographer, Transport Nerd<br>
<a href="https://www.natewessel.com"
style="text-decoration:none;" moz-do-not-send="true">NateWessel.com</a></small>
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