[Imports] Sitka, AK Buildings Import (Christoph Hormann)

Sat Jan 7 15:55:25 UTC 2017

I think this issue has already been addressed with the importer, we've
suggested to use update geometry to retain history, even though most of the
buildings was him that had drawn them

On Jan 7, 2017 10:36 AM, "Joshua Houston" <joshuahouston at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Christoph,
>
> That's what I'm doing right now, going through block by block replacing
> buildings and retaining history, and de-duplicating POIs. My earlier plan
> was before I was advised about the replace geometry tool. I'm nearly
> finished.
>
> Thanks all!!
>
> Joshua
>
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> It's been about 2 weeks since I proposed the Sitka, AK buildings import
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Sitka,_AK/Buildings_Import and added
>> it
>> to the import catalogue.
>>
>> There seems to be no objection. Some concerns were amenity attributes and
>> history, I've gone through and re-added the amenity attributes. As far as
>> history, I will retain history of the majority of buildings as I undertake
>> the import, rather than deleting all buildings and uploading my new ones.
>> I
>> will be using the Replace Geometry tool in the utilsplugin2.
>>
>> May I have the approval to begin the import?
>>
>> Thanks and cheers,
>>
>> Joshua
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>> From: Denis Carriere <carriere.denis at gmail.com>
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>> Thumbs up!
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>> Wiki looks great!
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>> On Jan 6, 2017 3:24 PM, "Joshua Houston" <joshuahouston at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > It's been about 2 weeks since I proposed the Sitka, AK buildings import
>> > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Sitka,_AK/Buildings_Import and
>> added
>> > it to the import catalogue.
>> >
>> > There seems to be no objection. Some concerns were amenity attributes
>> and
>> > history, I've gone through and re-added the amenity attributes. As far
>> as
>> > history, I will retain history of the majority of buildings as I
>> undertake
>> > the import, rather than deleting all buildings and uploading my new
>> ones. I
>> > will be using the Replace Geometry tool in the utilsplugin2.
>> >
>> > May I have the approval to begin the import?
>> >
>> > Thanks and cheers,
>> >
>> > Joshua
>> >
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>> Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 21:54:04 +0100
>> From: Christoph Hormann <chris_hormann at gmx.de>
>> To: imports at openstreetmap.org
>> Subject: Re: [Imports] Sitka, AK Buildings Import
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>> On Friday 06 January 2017, Joshua Houston wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > It's been about 2 weeks since I proposed the Sitka, AK buildings
>> > import https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Sitka,_AK/Buildings_Import
>> > and added it to the import catalogue.
>> >
>> > There seems to be no objection. Some concerns were amenity attributes
>> > and history, I've gone through and re-added the amenity attributes.
>> > As far as history, I will retain history of the majority of buildings
>> > as I undertake the import, rather than deleting all buildings and
>> > uploading my new ones. I will be using the Replace Geometry tool in
>> > the utilsplugin2.
>> >
>> > May I have the approval to begin the import?
>>
>> You do not need approval since there is no authority that could give it
>> to you.  The requirement is only to discuss this with interested
>> parties before you start.
>>
>> Since there was relatively little feedback so far i had a look and it
>> seems the data itself looks relatively good.  You procedure however is
>> not really as it should be:
>>
>> * when there are already buildings mapped you should not just delete
>> them and add the new ones but replace the geometries (JOSM has a
>> function for that).  This way you keep the history of the objects.
>> * you plan to add quite a few buildings with additional attributes where
>> there are already POI nodes at the moment which would - if you do it as
>> planned - lead to duplicate features - like:
>>
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2461138638
>>
>> for which your buildings.osm contains a building with matching
>> attributes.
>>
>> Since the total data volume is fairly small and most of the buildings
>> are new i would recommend to do this manually, i.e. not delete the
>> existing buildings all at once but go through the city block by block,
>> add the missing buildings and replace the geometries of those which
>> already exist while at the same time de-duplicating the POIs.
>>
>> --
>> Christoph Hormann
>> http://www.imagico.de/
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