<div dir="ltr">Hey Jonathon,<div><br></div><div>This looks great, it’s fantastic to see the LA Times leading on this work. Adding buildings to LA is super cool. Having grown up in suburbanized Atlanta I know it’s a lot harder to wander about and add buildings than in, say, New York or Berlin. </div><div><br></div><div>Quick question: do you all have any structural information about the buildings related to earthquake safety? If so I’d be interested in what tagging schema you’re using for them. I work with OSM for disaster management in my day job so I’m always keeping an eye out for good ideas from others.</div><div><br></div><div>Keep it up and don’t let the usual import haters get you down.</div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>- Robert</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 6:37 PM Rihards <<a href="mailto:richlv@nakts.net" target="_blank">richlv@nakts.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 2016.06.30. 17:58, Michael Reichert wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> Am Fri, 17 Jun 2016 22:20:46 +0000 schrieb Jonathan Schleuss:<br>
>> The Los Angeles Times will host another import party to push the "Great<br>
>> L.A. County Import" forward. We've imported more than half a million<br>
>> buildings with the great help of locals and the folks from Mapbox.<br>
><br>
> Did each participant use a separate account for this import?<br>
><br>
>> My focus is to use this import strengthen the Southern California OSM<br>
>> community. But, the project is open to all. If you're in the area,<br>
>> please join us.<br>
><br>
> Do you really believe that this helps the local community? A healthy map<br>
> has a strong community and a strong community consists out of people who<br>
> look after their neighbourhood on the map (i.e. keep data up to date).<br>
<br>
a good import motivates local mappers. when they see that the map is<br>
kinda there but a pub, shop or housenumber is missing, it easier for<br>
them to start.<br>
if they see blank area, they go "why bother".<br>
building outlines are very hard to collect for amateur mappers, and it<br>
is a large amount of work even with good sources.<br>
<br>
i'd like to say thank you to everybody who has done a proper, careful<br>
building import (no overlaps with existing buildings, no nodes on<br>
straight sections, orthogonalised etc :) ) - i know it was a lot of work.<br>
...<br>
--<br>
Rihards<br>
<br>
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