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<p>Rob,</p>
<p>One other thing to think about while others are discussing the
licensing topic: What is the quality of the buildings? Has that
been reviewed? <br>
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<li>Are they in the right place?</li>
<li>Are they the right size?<br>
</li>
<li>Are they squared off (rectangles)</li>
<li>Are they aligned to each other and the road (not slightly
mis-aligned)</li>
<li>Are they current (not buildings which have been torn down or
otherwise changed)</li>
<li>If there are attributes like "height" in your dataset, is that
accurate?<br>
</li>
<li>etc...</li>
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<p>I've not worked much on buildings, but probably others could add
comments about what are the criteria for "good buildings".<br>
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On 2018-03-06 11:05 AM, Rob Halko wrote:<br>
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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"
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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:
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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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