[Imports] Building Footprints in Kariba, Zimbabwe

John Whelan jwhelan0112 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 11 16:48:45 UTC 2019


I missed the link to your wiki page plan.

Are you importing plots or buildings?

If buildings how will you cope with the 2,200+ buildings already mapped?

Have you considered the use of Open Location Code for addresses?  OSMand 
supports this.

Thanks John

Jason Owen wrote on 2019-02-11 3:18 AM:
>
> Dear OSM community,
>
> I am from Zimbabwe and I’m working with the Local Authority in Kariba 
> Town (a small town in the West of the country). The Local Authority 
> would like to launch an app reliant on OSM data. The app is for 
> reporting local issues and users will geolocate issues before 
> submitting a form. Zimbabwe does not have a great street address 
> system and most streets in Kariba are not officially named. Most 
> houses do not have street numbers or street names/addresses. However, 
> all houses have got what is known as a “Stand Number” which is given 
> to the property owner when they purchase their property.
>
> The local authority has good GIS capabilities and has been creating 
> GIS layers for points of interest and building footprints with useful 
> attributes such as the stand number. I am helping them to investigate 
> the possibility of uploading a shapefile of all property boundaries 
> with stand number attributes to OSM. This will greatly improve the 
> geocoding possibilities for Kariba residents.
>
> I am following the steps laid out in the Import Guidelines - 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines. I would like to 
> inform the imports mailing list of our intentions and I look forward 
> to your comments and advice about this proposed import.
>
> Thanks so much,
>
> Jason
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