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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I was going to look at the buildings too. I’ve used a tool in ArcGIS to correct some pretty awful buildings, but I couldn’t download them either. If there is no hurry, I’d check in again with the contact on Monday. It would be nice to have the buildings with addresses on them.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Joe<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Yury Yatsynovich <yury.yatsynovich@gmail.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, August 29, 2020 5:05 PM<br><b>To:</b> Julien Lepiller <osm@lepiller.eu><br><b>Cc:</b> imports@openstreetmap.org; talk-us@openstreetmap.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Import WestCOG building footprints in south-west Connecticut<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Julien,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Unfortunately, I have limited knowledge on the data quality as I wasn't able to download it (the server returns error). I let the CT point of contact (Scott) know about the problem -- he mentioned in our communication that he forwarded the issue to the tech support team, but I haven't heard from them since then and I'm still unable to download it. <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sat, Aug 29, 2020, 4:57 PM Julien Lepiller <<a href="mailto:osm@lepiller.eu">osm@lepiller.eu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal>So, it's been a week since that last message. Do you think we should<br>import addresses and buildings at the same time? Should we import the<br>buildings first and care about addresses later?<br><br>Yury, what are your thoughts about the data source quality? Do you<br>think it's a good idea to import from WestCOG and maybe rely on CT data<br>for the rest of CT? I tried playing with the data and I didn't see any<br>difference between drawing the buildings from scratch and having to<br>simplify and correct CT's data.<br><br>Thanks!<br><br>Le Sat, 22 Aug 2020 19:36:23 -0400,<br>Martin Machyna <<a href="mailto:machyna@gmail.com" target="_blank">machyna@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<br><br>> Thank Julien for pushing this forward!<br>> <br>> yeah, I tried to get addresses from here:<br>> <a href="http://geodata-ctmaps.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/bfa7da83da384c2aa809882179369dc4_0/features/305004" target="_blank">http://geodata-ctmaps.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/bfa7da83da384c2aa809882179369dc4_0/features/305004</a><br>> and add them on top of the westCOG buildings.<br>> <br>> The data is a big mess because it's a join_table of like 30 different<br>> address databases. I lost a bit of motivation there, but I could have<br>> a look at it again.<br>> <br>> Martin<br>> <br>> On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 2:19 PM Julien Lepiller <<a href="mailto:osm@lepiller.eu" target="_blank">osm@lepiller.eu</a>><br>> wrote:<br>> <br>> > Le Sat, 22 Aug 2020 13:30:02 -0400,<br>> > Yury Yatsynovich <<a href="mailto:yury.yatsynovich@gmail.com" target="_blank">yury.yatsynovich@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<br>> > <br>> > > Hi Julien,<br>> > > The following communication that I've had recently with a CT<br>> > > official might be of interest to you:<br>> > ><br>> > > <br>> ><br>> > Oh, great! I think we already saw this data (I tried to contact them<br>> > too, but never got a reply :/). From what we saw (I think it was in<br>> > February?) the footprints have simplification issues (see<br>> > <a href="https://files.slack.com/files-pri/T029HV94T-FTDGDHXTM/image.png" target="_blank">https://files.slack.com/files-pri/T029HV94T-FTDGDHXTM/image.png</a> for<br>> > instance) where they are too detailed, not square enough, etc. Some<br>> > buildings also have holes in them, when there's none in the imagery.<br>> ><br>> > So I think it's too bad to be used directly, without a lot of manual<br>> > effort to simplify, square and redraw the shapes. However, the<br>> > address data is very interesting, so maybe we could extract from<br>> > it? Or we could use a separate dataset if they have addresses<br>> > separately.<br>> ><br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > Imports mailing list<br>> > <a href="mailto:Imports@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">Imports@openstreetmap.org</a><br>> > <a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports</a><br>> > <br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Talk-us mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Talk-us@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">Talk-us@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></body></html>