[Imports] Tampa/Clearwater Florida Building Import for Irma Recover Efforts

Carl Anderson carl.anderson at vadose.org
Sun Sep 10 23:41:14 UTC 2017


If you really want to check
You can use the SWFWMD 2007 Lidar.  This building is old enough to exist in
that set.

https://coast.noaa.gov/dataviewer/#/lidar/search/-9222280.336663084,3185130.9686432937,-9193540.014027858,3224572.4752384447/details/6252

C.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Carl_Anderson


On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 7:18 PM, Andrew Matheny <andrewdmatheny at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think 36 feet could be a reasonable height. It appears to be a retail or
> commercial building, which in the US can easily have a clear height
> (internal ceiling height) of 16-24' for each floor (if not more, I've seen
> some at 28'). Like James mentioned, this could be a multi-story building.
>
> Also keep in mind that the height field is supposed to reflect the maximum
> height, not an average. So any slope (like their appears to be on that
> building) is going to increase the height value.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew
>
> On Sep 10, 2017 5:47 PM, "Leon Karcher" <leonkarcher.123 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Sorry, but this
>> <https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/523414373#map=19/27.76977/-82.70015> building
>> is definitely not 12 meters tall if you compare it to Mapillary
>> <https://www.mapillary.com/app/?lat=27.770955233862182&lng=-82.69659542457475&z=12.351925459224056&mapStyle=mapbox_streets&pKey=UHRsNCiHGjlaATnP9hg9HQ&focus=photo&x=0.4720420384862768&y=0.5438714582597994&zoom=0.30927835051546393>,
>> so the height can't be in meters.
>>
>> 2017-09-11 0:05 GMT+02:00 Andrew Matheny <andrewdmatheny at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Leon-
>>>
>>> These footprints were donated by Microsoft, and the height attributes
>>> are already in meters. See the Documentation section of the wiki page here:
>>>
>>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Microsoft_Building_Footprint_Data
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Andrew
>>>
>>> On Sep 10, 2017 5:00 PM, "Leon Karcher" <leonkarcher.123 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I just realized a problem with the data of this import: Heights are
>>>> measured in feet and inches but are in standard meters format (eg. 10.41
>>>> instead of 10'41''). Has anybody an idea how we could translate them? And
>>>> what shall we do with the already imported buildings?
>>>>
>>>> - Leon
>>>>
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