[Imports-us] Union County Original Data and OSM files

[Randal Hale]

I ran a frequency on the original shapefile and started cleaning up 
misspellings for the OSM conversion (the shapefile I provided was before 
I started doing any corrections). I contacted Union County and alerted 
them to the frequent spellings of commercial/residential and a few other 
assorted oddities. I pulled churches and schools out of the original - 
those needed an extra tag: amenity = place_of_worship and I think 
amenity = school. I mean to have placed those up there and forgot 
completely.

I plan on fixing any errors with buildings crosses buildings on a case 
by case basis.

I ended up manually expanding a lot of the street tags - there are a few 
I'm still not clear on. I've got an email into them to check.

One of the things I'm puzzled by (just from a mapping perspective) are 
the houses with an address and those without. It would appear they are 
still in the process of assigning addresses to their data. They provided 
a 911 address file but it left me with more questions than answers - 
I'll zip them an email to make doubly sure the address on the building 
is correct. Some of their road data crosses county/state lines and I 
think that ended up being incorrectly pushed into the building footprint 
(i.e. the road originates in fanin county or in North Carolina).

I don't know how multiple addresses are handled but I will check with 
them and get an answer.

I appreciate the help. I'm still a while from wanting to start an upload 
- I want to clean up the base data before this starts.

Randy


On 12/08/2013 07:23 PM, Jason Remillard wrote:
> Hi Randal,
>
> Some comments.
>
> - The alignment matches Bing very closely.
> - There are about 100 building inside building, and 2 crossing
> buildings errors from the JOSM validator. It looks like the error is
> in the source data.
> - What is your mapping to the building tag? The source data has all
> kinds of misspellings. 7 spellings for residential. It also has fields
> for mobile homes, school, church, government, that have specific
> building tags that are not in the output file.
> - You have some weird house numbers in the source data that need to be
> filtered out (0, "burned down", not addressed,  not livable, etc).
> - What is your mapping for the street_T field. There are some weird
> things in the data like '<Null>', 'DR (FANNIN)', 'PL','RD W", 'RDG',
> etc that are making it through to the output file.
> - Same for the street. There is some weird values, like '<null>', "12
> point", etc.
> - Dr is not being expanded to Drive.
>
> Do you know  how multiple addresses at the same building are handled
> in the source data?
>
> Thanks
> Jason.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Randal Hale
> <rjhale at northrivergeographic.com> wrote:
>> I placed two links here:
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Data_Import_for_Union_County_Georgia
>>
>> One is for the original shapefile data and one is for the OSM file.
>>
>> The original shapefile is in ESRI:102667
>> (http://spatialreference.org/ref/esri/102667/) - which is equivalent to
>> EPSG:2240
>> I converted the entire file into OSM format. It should be in EPSG:4326
>>
>> I've started cleaning up the tiger/NHD/landcover data currently in Union.
>> I'm using the roads file that was provided for guidance. The area is
>> exceptionally rural. I'm slowly removing landcover since it's almost
>> entirely wrong. NHD is being fixed where it makes sense - being removed in
>> cases where it no longer matches the imagery. I'm using 2010 NAIP as a
>> reference in the cleanup.
>>
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