[Imports] Austin, TX building footprint import

Kate Chapman kate at maploser.com
Mon Mar 5 23:42:53 UTC 2012


Hey Tom,

I'm noticing they have Address points as well.  Have you inquired
about the license for those as well?  It would be easier to import
buildings and address points together rather than to do the points
later.

-Kate

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:45 AM, Josh Doe <josh at joshdoe.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Tom MacWright <tom at macwright.org> wrote:
>> My first idea is to bring in subsets into JOSM, vet them there, and upload
>> that way. Is there a more approved solution? The edits would also be under a
>> separate user, like 'city_austin_import'.
>
> That's my preferred approach. I don't like leaving the database in a
> likely invalid state. Better to have missing data for a while than bad
> data.
>
>> Anyone working in that area or looking at the same data?
>
> I'm not, but could you document this on the wiki before doing any
> actual uploading? Include a link to the datasource, the
> ogr2osm/shp-to-osm/etc translation file, license details (in general
> city-produced data is not in the "Public Domain", but they may state
> something to that effect), and update your status as you go. I'd link
> to it from at least these two spots:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Austin
>
> On a somewhat related note, I really need to get my conflation plugin
> working for this kind of work flow. If you get a chance, check it out
> and let me know what would make the plugin usable:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/Conflation
>
> -Josh
>
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