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<div>As I understand, the plan is to load the buildings in manageable sets from the tasking manager,<br></div><div>and person doing verification will skip solely clearly bizarre geometries and assume that everything<br></div><div>else is correct.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I think that given presence of nonsense geometries means that seemingly OK ones cannot<br></div><div>be assumed to be valid ones, and only verified ones should be imported.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Jul 21, 2020, 11:53 by winfixit@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div>I get the impression Mateusz thinks the import will consist of an automatic dump of the data, whereas the actual plan is to load the buildings in manageable sets from the tasking manager and then a person does the verification, maybe by using the todo plugin in JOSM?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Polyglot<br></div></div><div><br></div><div class=""><div class="" dir="ltr">On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 10:25 AM Jorieke Vyncke <<a href="mailto:jorieke.vyncke@london.msf.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">jorieke.vyncke@london.msf.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class=""><div lang="EN-GB"><div class=""><p class=""><span>Hi Mateusz, <u></u><u></u></span><br></p><p class=""><span><u></u> <u></u></span><br></p><p class=""><span>Thanks for your feedback! <u></u><u></u></span><br></p><p class=""><span>There are really not that many of this type of buildings in the dataset, most of the buildings are nicely squared or circulized. By the manual verification of the data, we’ll of course compare and
adapt the building data with the latest imagery that we have available on OpenStreetMap – the Maxar Premium Imagery. We’ll correct with help of that imagery and of course in all cases nicely square corners of the weird shapes. There will really not be a ‘soul-crushing
cleanup’ needed after this import. <u></u><u></u></span><br></p><p class=""><span><u></u> <u></u></span><br></p><p class=""><span>Would you rather propose to leave these buildings out? We could do that as well, but I would prefer not to, since this means we will have an incomplete dataset in the area. I’d rather choose for
correcting the shapes with help of available imagery. <u></u><u></u></span><br></p><p class=""><span><u></u> <u></u></span><br></p><p class=""><span>Best wishes, <u></u><u></u></span><br></p><p class=""><span><u></u> <u></u></span><br></p><p class=""><span>Jorieke<u></u><u></u></span><br></p><p class=""><span><u></u> <u></u></span><br></p><div><p class=""><span style="color: rgb(166, 166, 166);"><span class="size" style="font-size:9pt"><br></span></span><span style="color: rgb(166, 166, 166);"><span class="size" style="font-size:10pt"><u></u><u></u></span></span></p></div><p class=""><span><u></u> <u></u></span><br></p><div><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0cm 0cm"><p class=""><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Mateusz Konieczny via Imports <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:imports@openstreetmap.org" rel="noopener noreferrer">imports@openstreetmap.org</a>> <br> <b>Sent:</b> 20 July 2020 18:20<br> <b>Cc:</b> '<a target="_blank" href="mailto:imports@openstreetmap.org" rel="noopener noreferrer">imports@openstreetmap.org</a>' <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:imports@openstreetmap.org" rel="noopener noreferrer">imports@openstreetmap.org</a>><br> <b>Subject:</b> Re: [Imports] Import building footprints Lopa & Lingo<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class=""><u></u> <u></u><br></p><div><p class=""><u></u> <u></u><br></p></div><div><p class=""><u></u> <u></u><br></p></div><div><p class=""><u></u> <u></u><br></p></div><div><p class="">Jul 20, 2020, 18:18 by <a target="_blank" href="mailto:jorieke.vyncke@london.msf.org" rel="noopener noreferrer"> jorieke.vyncke@london.msf.org</a>:<u></u><u></u><br></p></div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(147,163,184);padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 8pt;margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><div><p class="">Q: Some buildings have strange trapezoidal shapes, how are you planning to correct them without accessing the imagery?<u></u><u></u><br></p><p class=""><span>T</span>here are not that many of these. Since we are not able to check back with the original imagery, we’ll have to trust the dataset
we want to import for this and will upload the data. Of course by looking at the data manually we would be able to spot areas with real issues with this and then we can still decide to not upload that data. <u></u><u></u><br></p></div></blockquote><div><p class="">So clearly suspicious shapes such as this trapeizodal ones will be skipped and<u></u><u></u><br></p></div><div><p class="">everything else without blatant mistakes will be imported without verification?<u></u><u></u><br></p></div><div><p class=""><u></u> <u></u><br></p></div><div><p class="">That seems to be a bad idea and I am opposed to such import. It will just burden<u></u><u></u><br></p></div><div><p class="">any community of mappers that may appear with soul-crushing cleanup.<u></u><u></u><br></p></div></div></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div> Imports mailing list<br></div><div> <a target="_blank" href="mailto:Imports@openstreetmap.org" rel="noopener noreferrer">Imports@openstreetmap.org</a><br></div><div> <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports</a><br></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div> </body>
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