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<p class="MsoNormal">Good morning,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Region of Durham has recently purchased Building Footprints data for the entire Region, and it is available as Open Data:
<a href="http://opendata.durham.ca/datasets/building-footprints">http://opendata.durham.ca/datasets/building-footprints</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We would like to import these to Open Street Map to engage the community and help improve the overall map. We are supporters of OSM and wish to regularly partner in improving the data.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In particular, we are hosting a mapathon on March 29, which asks for student input to add attributes to the buildings based on OSM guidelines for the Building Canada 2020 project:
<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada/Building_Canada_2020#The_data_that_could_be_mapped">
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada/Building_Canada_2020#The_data_that_could_be_mapped</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We have read your Import guidelines and are here to express our interest in contributing our building data. The intention is not to overwrite those buildings that the community has built, but bridge the gap to include the rest of the 200,000+
buildings in Durham (largely residential), which are missing from OSM.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please let us know how we can contribute this valuable data on behalf of the community.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.durham.ca/"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="45" height="69" style="width:.4687in;height:.7187in" id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.png@01D3B53B.0A2681B0"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#003D6B">Rob Halko | Supervisor, GIS</span></b>
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Regional Municipality of Durham | Corporate Services - Information Technology <br>
905-668-4113 ext 2189 | Mobile: 289-927-7168<br>
<span style="font-size:8.5pt">Corporate Values: • Ethical Leadership • Accountability • Service Excellence • Continuous Learning and Improvement • Inclusion</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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