[Imports] Burlington VT Building Footprints

Andrew Guertin andrew.guertin at uvm.edu
Tue Jan 15 16:22:59 UTC 2013


On 01/15/2013 09:38 AM, William Morris wrote:
> 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.

Probably the spaces are present in the source data; try adding a strip()
in the translation.

> 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.

AIUI, if the structured information from addr:housenumber, addr:street,
etc. is sufficient, then addr:full isn't needed and shouldn't be used.
(Confirmation on this, anyone?)

--Andrew



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