[Imports] Joining/merging address attributes to existing footprints

[Josh Doe]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Joe Larson <joe at joelarson.com> wrote:
> What I am now looking at is a workflow to "join" or merge attributes from an
> existing Address Points layer that is in Esri format(s). What I wanted to
> talk about here was my proposed mapping from the Esri point file to OSM
> attributes and also the actual workflow.

Welcome, and thanks for coming to this list before you get started.

> The "join" or merge: I'm still open to workflow suggestions but I might use
> the ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap for this process. This will require
> Adding/Changing Feature
> Properties http://esriosmeditor.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Add%2fChange%20Feature%20Properties&referringTitle=Change%20OSM%20Editing%20Options so
> I can do a Spatial Join of Address Points that touch building-footprints and
> transfer their attributes to the appropriate OSM attribute parallel. I
> wonder if this can be done easier with ogr2osm.py and JOSM however…

I don't have access to ArcGIS, so I don't know how that would work. I
am working on a conflation plugin for JOSM however, and this workflow
is one of the intended uses for it:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/Conflation

I'm making changes to help a user conflate address nodes with buildings:
http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/7374

You can follow code developments here:
https://github.com/joshdoe/josm-conflation-plugin/commits/master

I'd appreciate feedback as I make these changes if you think it might
be helpful for you.

-Josh