<div dir="auto">It appears the original discussion on talk-ca was missed by many.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">There appears to be an issue of local buy-in but I think for the moment we should first concentrate on the problems we expect to see.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The building outlines we imported in Ottawa predated the Bing imagery I suspect.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So first off what should be done with buildings in the import that are not on ESRI or Bing? Assuming they are being imported by an armchair mapper.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My suggestion is they be ignored. Realistically we aren't going to capture every building in Canada but it should give us a reasonable start.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">For buildings that already exist I see two possibilities. First is do not import, the second import but copy over the history i.e. merge.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I have no strong feelings either way.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">For buildings that are imported my suggestion is they should be tagged building=yes unless there is local knowledge or mapilary or openstreetcam imagery to support something different.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Should the import be preprocessed to square the buildings or remove small blobs?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I hear two points of view, one says it should be the other says bring it in as it is. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My personal gut feel is bring it in as is. However I don't have strong views on this.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'm hearing the import plan should have more detailed instructions. I think some were placed on the task manager.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Have I missed anything?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Can we try for consensus or what I have listed?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I suggest we put aside what is local buy in and how we obtain it for the moment.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks John</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Jan 19, 2019, 5:31 PM Begin Daniel <<a href="mailto:jfd553@hotmail.com">jfd553@hotmail.com</a> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">It seems that talk-ca works this way - long periods of silence, then a burst of emails because something went wrong! I just realized that this massive import of buildings started a few weeks ago and I’m surprised.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I was trying to stay informed about the project because I was worried about how the import would deal with the thousands of buildings I have modified (or deleted) over the years.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I then tend to agree with Steve, Andrew and Nate. Something happened too fast or went wrong. There is so much to discuss about how to proceed, how to deal with existing buildings, how to deal with buildings that do not seem to exist on
images, etc. I would have liked to participate in the discussion. All of this may have been dealt with the import project of Ottawa, however, as this particular project did not interest me, I did not follow the discussions. I was expecting the new import project
to be documented and discussed by itself, even if it eventually ends-up as a copy paste of Ottawa import’s procedures.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Communication and clear statements are required to make such large import a success and a buy-in of all the community. I think this is why following the import guideline is important.<u></u><u></u></p>
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