[Imports] [Talk-us-pugetsound] Potential Import of Addresses for Thurston County, WA, USA

[Raven King]

Alright. I will definitely reach out to them. If they give me
permission I will be in touch about learning to use the tasking
manager.

Sincerely,
Raven King

On Mon, 2020-08-10 at 15:46 -0700, Clifford Snow wrote:
> Raven,
> As Pat said, I've done a bunch of imports. Currently I'm importing
> buildings and addresses for Marysville, WA. Because the building
> footprints aren't the best quality, it will take a while.
> 
> As far as the licensing goes, I'm sure if we contact the GIS manager
> we can get written approval to use the data. Counties and cities are
> pretty open to sharing their data with OSM. In fact my Marysville
> import is being done for the city. I attempted to look up the GIS
> manager but their web page doesn't show one. I'm sure I can get one
> if we need it. The county does have both addresses and building
> outlines. I'd encourage you to consider adding both. But, Thurston
> county has 129K addresses and 146K building outlines. I'd recommend
> doing the import in smaller chunks like cities or neighborhoods. 
> 
> As for the process, once I've made sure the data is in good shape, I
> split it into small chunks, usually voting districts (even though we
> don't use them in the state anymore - thank you mail in voting) The
> data is then fed into OSM US's Tasking Manager for import using
> JOSM. 
> 
> If you'd like to experience what it's like to use the Tasking Manager
> contact me via email to import some of Marysville. 
> 
> Best,
> Clifford
> 
> 
> On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 5:18 PM Pat Tressel <ptressel at myuw.net> wrote:
> > Raven --
> > 
> > Our local import expert is Clifford Snow ( clifford at snowandsnow.us
> > ) -- he shepherded through the import of house numbers and building footprints for King County.  What he did was to split up the data into more manageable pieces, and then put out a call for folks who live in each area to do the import "by hand".  My memory is hazy, but the process was something like:  We'd open the area in JOSM, then open the file with the house numbers and building polygons as a layer.  We'd select and add a few at a time, after checking that they were ok.  If you have a local OSM Meetup group, you could rope them in to do the work.  Or, perhaps CUGOS folks could help.
> > 
> > -- Pat
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