[Imports] Microsoft Buildings Import Inquiry

Mike N niceman at att.net
Tue Feb 12 18:21:05 UTC 2019


Thanks - that's what I was thinking.  Documenting is not too bad, but it 
is inconvenient to use the import account.

On 2/12/2019 12:55 PM, john whelan wrote:
> The building outlines to my understanding are not Bing images but have 
> to be imported using JOSM or another tool as would any other import so 
> to my mind need a formal import plan and agreement with local mappers 
> etc. etc.
> 
> A mapathon is just a number of mappers who are working together.  They 
> may or may not be importing.
> 
> Probably not what you wanted to hear and I strongly suspect some have 
> been brought into OSM without following the import guidelines.
> 
> Cheerio John
> 
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2019, 12:41 PM Mike N <niceman at att.net 
> <mailto:niceman at att.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>     Checking in - Is the process of using Microsoft Buildings which are
>     occasionally distorted by shadows and thus all have to be manually
>     inspected still treated as an import, or would the process be
>     classified
>     as a Mapathon?
> 
>         Thanks,
> 
>         Mike
> 
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