[Imports] Wisconsin Multi-County Building Footprints

Joshua Carlson jdcarls2 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 14 20:10:58 UTC 2018


It looks like only 5 of the counties have both useful fields and values in
those fields. The import wiki page has been updated to detail the
particulars of each.

The remaining counties are essentially "shape-only", with the data stripped
out, or additional fields simply not present.

On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 11:16 AM Minh Nguyen <minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us>
wrote:

> On 2018-12-14 08:43, Joshua Carlson wrote:
> > Thank you, Max. I'll do my best to map useful attributes as they are
> > identified. It's early enough in the process that it should be easy
> enough.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 10:28 AM Max Erickson
> > <maxerickson at gmail.com
> > <mailto:maxerickson at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     On the wiki you say "Fields will all be dropped from the data."
> >
> >     Please consider taking your time and mapping as many of the useful
> >     attributes over as possible. Just browsing through a few, I see that
> >     several of the counties have building height information.
>
> As we prepared for an import in Hamilton County, Ohio [1], we discovered
> that the county's "estimated height" field was just the story count
> multiplied by 11 feet, and that quite a few story counts came from an
> unreliable source (thankfully noted as such). I wouldn't be surprised if
> other counties take similar shortcuts, so be sure to spot-check these
> values with any buildings you're familiar with.
>
> [1]
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/imports/2018-December/005853.html
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> minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us
>
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