[Imports] Handling of existing buildings in NYC import (was Re: Buildings & Address in Washington, DC, USA.)

[Katie Filbert]

On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 7:16 PM, Alex Barth <alex at mapbox.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 2:39 AM, Katie Filbert <filbertk at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 3:02 AM, Alex Barth <alex at mapbox.com> wrote:
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>>> Katie -
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>>> Can you show me an example?
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>> Some of the problematic things I found earlier this week when surveying:
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>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/note/179039
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>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/note/178197
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> Are these improvements that you had entered earlier but were reversed
> later and now you added them again?
>

It's difficult to go back and look at the history.  I am sure a mapper with
local knowledge would not make the second error, and the first is just
sloppy (but happens).  Maybe a volunteer would take more care... don't know.


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>> It's difficult to go back and look at the deleted buildings and say which
>> were better, but I don't think any were kept as far as i can tell.  We
>> even put in addresses! and they were deleted. I don't think that was
>> necessary.
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> I know, that's hard, but I'm looking now whether we can do a round up of
> all items that you touched on OSM in NYC and that were later removed and do
> a review.
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Not really worth it at this point, but just suggest that things be done
differently for DC and future imports.

If OCTO is going to lead the imports, that's great but recommend
experienced community members have opportunity to assist if they like.

A way forward is to work on setting up tasks in the tasking manager. At
minimum, people can track progress or can help if they like.

http://tasks.openstreetmap.us/job/6 doesn't have anything setup afaik.  how
does one get the rights to do this?

If OCTO only wants to work on new buildings, sounds ok. Volunteers can help
with tasks that OCTO is not interested in.

Cheers,
Katie



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Katie Filbert
filbertk at gmail.com
@filbertkm / @wikimediadc / @wikidata
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