[Imports] Burlington VT Building Footprints

[Toby Murray]

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:14 PM, William Morris
<wboykinm at geosprocket.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> After abandoning my fiddling with remotely-sensed building footprints, I
> just asked the city of Burlington if they'd allow their building footprint
> data to be added to OSM under the ODbL terms. They're perfectly happy to do
> so, which means I've got just under 10k structures to import. They are:
>
> - Foundation-level accurate
> - Not overly-node-y
> - Somewhat regularly updated since 1979 (there are a few omissions)
>
> I've conflict-detected the lot of them with the current OSM data - Andrew
> Guertin and a few others have already done some tremendous work here, so
> none of the new footprints overlap existing features. I've also pored over
> the dataset manually and deleted outdated structures - it pays to be a
> local.
>
> Here's the data (7.6MB):
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/s5kvaribxlu4rpd/btv_prints.osm
>
> Please let me know what can be done to reach community standards on this
> before importing.

Did you run JOSM's validator on the whole file? It pointed out that
there are 3 multipolygon relations but none of them have any members.
What software are you using to do the conversion? Seems like it might
be trying to make multipolygon relations (maybe for buildings with
holes in them?) but is somehow failing.

Toby