[Imports] [Talk-es] [Cat2Osm2] Tool for exporting Spanish Cadastre data in OSM suitable format

[Paul Norman]

> From: Cruz Enrique Borges [mailto:cruz.borges at deusto.es]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 11:36 PM
> To: imports at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [Imports] [Talk-es] [Cat2Osm2] Tool for exporting Spanish
> Cadastre data in OSM suitable format
> 
> > Usefulness is in the eye of the beholder. While you may find it
> > interesting to have all this 3D information, I'd find it much more
> > useful to have building outlines in OSM that are complete. The single
> > building parts make not much sense for anything but 3D rendering.
> 
> For us is a _vital_ information. We are making models of the urban
> sprawl of several cities and the hight of a building give us a lot of
> information about the type and the number of person who can live in that
> building.

The concerns being expressed are about using multiple ways to represent one
building. How big do you estimate the import will be total, both in number
of buildings and number of ways tagged as buildings?

> > And I suspect that they are going to
> > give you a big headache once you get around to mapping addresses.
> 
> I don't think so. The address is already in the building or in the
> parcel (it's an step of the import process).

It would better reflect normal mapping if you had the addresses on the
buildings and a conventionally mapped landuse=residential way.