[Imports] [Talk-us] Uploads to City of Salisbury, MD

[Werner Poppele]

Paul Norman wrote:
> If there are duplicated ways and nodes, perhaps reverting is the best
> option?
>
>> From: Marc Zoss [mailto:marczoss at gmail.com]
>> Subject: Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Uploads to City of Salisbury, MD
>>
>> Dear Nick
>>
>> I would strongly advise to review and revise you conversion scripts.
>>
>> The move to select and delete these duplicated ways with JOSM seems a
>> bit risky. However for the already uploaded data you possibly don't have
>> much choices. Give it a go by using the following in JOSM's find
>> function.
>>
>> tags:1 and closed and "sby:bldgtype"=*
>>
>> I have also noted that your import has generated quite some duplicate
>> ways (and thus ton of  nodes). JOSM's validator is your friend - check
>> the data with it and remove automatically the dupes - better do it
>> twice.
>>
>> Best regars
>>
>> Marc
>> On 22.03.2012, at 00:08, AJ Ashton wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Nick,
>>>
>>> The quality of these building footprints looks great, and it's the
>>> kind of thing I personally like to see imported because it's tedious
>>> to trace them accurately and difficult/impossible to capture them with
>>> GPS. And as you mentioned it can assist future placement of shops,
>>> amenities, etc.
>>>
>>> However, from downloading and looking at a random area in JOSM, I'm
>>> seeing some problems. You can't tell from the renders, but many
>>> buildings are there more than once as separate overlapping objects.
>>> Example:
>>>
>>> - http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/153813132
>>> - http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/153808317
>>> - http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/153849919
>>>
>>> It looks like the problem objects all have a 'sby:bldgtype' tag and no
>>> other tags, so it should be a straight-forward fix. I not exactly sure
>>> the best way to go about that, though.
>>>
>>> --
>>> AJ Ashton
>>>
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We have enough work to do because of the license change. Please revert 
the changeset
WernerP