[Imports] Burlington VT Building Footprints

[William Morris]

1. trim trailing (and leading) spaces from values

Weirdly, these are being added when I pipe the shapefile through ogr2osm
(both Paul's and Andrew's versions). I'm not sure what's going on there.

2. housenumber should be '69', integer

Agreed.

3. Use natural capitalisation for street names, 'Catherine', not all caps

On it.

4. height should be '8 m', trim the .00000 and add unit. You could skip 'm'
as this is the default

I'll set it without units; consensus was definitely that meters are default.

5. name tag should not be address, there is addr:full tag for this. Name is
for buildings which have really own special name, e.g. 'City hall'

Gotcha. Good to know that addr:full is an option; I had thrown those in
name for lack of a better location.

The world of XML being fairly alien to me, I find myself wishing for a JOSM
feature similar to the field calculator in QGIS. Basically anything that
lets me manipulate "attribute" values with python or javascript to trim
spaces and concatenate strings. Is there any talk of such a feature?

-Bill
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