<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">So how would you tackle it?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Adding buildings with JOSM and the buildings_tool is possible, I think Julia tried to whip up some interest with the 2020 project. Unfortunately mapathons using iD and new mappers for some reason don't work too well for buildings. They do work fine for adding tags though.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">I seem to recall March 2nd is some sort of student GIS day and we can expect something to happen in GEO/GIS week whenever it is. I'd prefer adding tags to existing outlines rather than having to clean up buildings added with iD.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">If we go back in time to the Ottawa import and the licensing issues I seem to recall a Toronto mapper submitting the Toronto Open Data License to the legal working group which implies at least one Toronto OSM mapper was after the Toronto Open Data.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">My feeling at the moment is there is a suggestion that "cleaning" the data up then some sort of team approach in a particular area would be acceptable but how you put it together I'm not sure.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Suggestions please</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Cheerio John<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 at 15:52, Begin Daniel <<a href="mailto:jfd553@hotmail.com">jfd553@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:talk-ca@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">talk-ca@openstreetmap.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Talk-ca] Building Import update<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p>IMO, this is a red herring and I think you must recognize that to at least some degree. Just like no one suggested we do 3700 import plans, no on has suggested that we not add buildings to OSM. The question is how, and if that "how" in part is an import,
then what data, at what speed, by who, etc?<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>We're not debating between "import" and "nothing" here. There were tens of thousands of carefully hand-mapped buildings in Toronto before you and a couple others rode in and quietly changed everything in the course of a week.
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<p>I'd like to point out to you the interesting case of Kenton County Kentucky:<br>
<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/361564" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/361564</a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p>Go ahead and zoom in and take a good look at that data. Poke around the rest of Northern Kentucky too while you're at it. Notice how good not only the building data is, but landuses, named places, etc. The only substantial import this area has ever seen
is the TIGER road import of about a decade ago. By the time we started our Hamilton County building import (just north of the river), there were more than 150,000 buildings added by hand in the region already.
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<p>I'm not saying this is the way Toronto/Canada needs to develop, but don't imply that it's impossible - it isn't.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Port Hope Ontario is relatively obscure yet both Bing and google have buildings and neither company would spend the money dropping them in unless they saw a demand.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">I'm a shades of grey person so to me there is no absolute need to have buildings in OpenStreetMap and I think different end users have different expectations. I seem to recall osmand has
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">I can make a case for both having them and not having any. On the not having any way up there would be the buildings added by inexperienced mappers using iD often in HOT projects. There
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">For Ottawa I think I can safely say the local mappers are happy with the imported buildings. In OpenStreetMap there will always be a range of points of view.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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