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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Whoops – sent my reply to myself, not the list<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Based on the feedback from local mappers, I did a test into Hampton Place, where there were no buildings before. This can be seen at <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.257597&lon=-123.234886&zoom=18&layers=M">http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.257597&lon=-123.234886&zoom=18&layers=M</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>A couple of thoughts<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The roads here need verification. I didn’t touch them except to get their positioning right, but they need checking for names, access, etc. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Some buildings that are in the shapefile didn’t make it through ogr2osm. The shapefile has a number of buildings with invalid geometries that it doesn’t like. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>A site survey is needed to do addr:* data, but I find this a lot easier to do when I can print a map that has buildings and then write in each building the details.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Paul Norman [mailto:penorman@mac.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, February 05, 2011 3:29 PM<br><b>To:</b> talk-ca@openstreetmap.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [Talk-ca] Proposed import: UBC Buildings<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’m proposing to import the UBC buildings, available at <a href="http://geodata.plantops.ubc.ca/data/OSM_Feb2011.zip">http://geodata.plantops.ubc.ca/data/OSM_Feb2011.zip</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This import will be done carefully, comparing imported data with existing data by hand, and may involve follow-up site surveys in case of conflicting keys.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Legal:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The data is dual-licensed as CC-BY-SA and ODbl by UBC.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tagging:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Buildings will be tagged with building=yes, name=(value of name_at), ubc:building_num=(value of number), source=UBC Plant Ops 2011<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Data quality:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The data agrees with bing aerial imagery, GPS traces, and BC Government Openmaps imagery within the resolution of the imagery, after correcting for building lean in the imagery.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The data is of *<b>ground</b>* level building outlines. The many overpasses will be dealt with in the import process.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Import process:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The buildings will be compared with existing OSM data, and the way which better represents the building will be kept. Tags will be merged, with any conflicts followed up by a site survey as there are some disagreements about names of minor buildings. Existing building entrances nodes will be merged onto any new buildings, as with any connecting ways. It’s a lot of work, but the only way to get an import like this right.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Imports will be done from pnorman_imports<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>