[Imports] Joining/merging address attributes to existing footprints

[Thomas Emge]

Joe,

Don't let the attribute table view mislead you about the contained tags. Within an ArcMap edit session you'll see all the tags by default but in order to have them participate in other geoprocessing functions you'll need to explode them into stand-alone attributes first using the OSM Attribute Selector gp tool. Once you connect the feature class to the tool, the tool itself will present you a list of unique tags to choose from. In case the OSM tag isn't mentioned yet in the list, then you can manually add the field as it follows a simple naming convention: something like addr:housenumber:unit would become osm_addr__housenumber__unit as the field name.
In either case if you do run into issues please let us know in the discussion forum at http://esriosmeditor.codeplex.com/discussions and we'll help you through the process -- with the proper import caveats in mind.

- Thomas

-----Original Message-----
From: joe at joelarson.com [mailto:joe at joelarson.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 12:37 PM
To: imports at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Imports] Joining/merging address attributes to existing footprints

Steve, Josh and Thomas - sincere appreciation for your thoughts, comments, advice! I want to respond and fill-in any missing information from my original post.

The data is from mixed sources and methods; GPS field observation/survey and an analysis/workflow where select parcel attributes were centroided then edited, moved to be on top of the primary building on that parcel. Field validation has been conducted for points which were not originally collected from GPS field survey. This is a large effort of multiple agencies - where my office is the primary lead, managing the process. The data is public domain licensed.

My plan is to use already utilized methods to transfer attributes, such as a spatial join e.g. 
http://maps.cga.harvard.edu/qgis/wkshop/join_spatial.php - manual inspection is not my primary plan with this project. From my experience so far, I understand the discouragement of imports - I also recognize the high priority respect to pre-existing data holds and we will be very cautious of historic user contributions during this process.

Josh - thank you for reminding me about the Conflation plugin for JOSM. 
I've been down the whole OpenJump, RoadMatcher conflation effort when our County purchased contractor delivered street-centerlines (also public domain) - never followed through on that project/effort but I have great optimism about the JOSM Conflation effort. I will get accustomed to the plugin-workflow and give feedback, as well as follow your developments...are you funded or take donations at all for your work on this?

Thomas - I am still going through the documentation and doing tests with the ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap. The only tag that is in the existing building-footprints I'm attempting to conflate information/tags to is `building=yes`. Something I'm kinda stuck on is: how can I use the Attribute Selector to create stand-alone attributes for the tags I previously proposed such as addr:street:prefix or addr:housenumber:unit ? (BTW, I noticed a typo in my original post where I wrote `UNIT -> addr:street:suffix` meant to say `UNIT -> addr:housenumber:unit` ... 
tags which I was looking to hear feedback on.) I may want to address this on http://esriosmeditor.codeplex.com/discussions however, instead of boring others with particulars...

Thank you again all _ joe

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