[Imports] Proposal for importing building footprints for Onondaga County, NY

[Jack Arnold]

I plan on starting by manually reviewing and uploading changesets, so I
didn't feel pointing out it was automated necessary. It was poorly
phrased. Would this be appropriate for changeset tags?

comment=Onondaga County, NY building footprints import
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue/Onondaga_County_NY_Building_Footprint_Import
bot=yes
source=http://www.fsihost.com/onondaga/
source:date=2020-10-01

On Thu, 2021-02-04 at 11:56 +0100, Mateusz Konieczny via Imports wrote:
> "Changeset tags won't be necessary until the import is automated and
> not manually reviewed."
> 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue/Onondaga_County_NY_Building_Footprint_Import
> 
> What you mean by that?
> Changeset tags should at least link wiki documentation page and
> mark it as a bot edit (though wiki documentation page may be also
> linked in
> the changeset comment).
> 
> Feb 4, 2021, 01:55 by imports at openstreetmap.org:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I previously discussed importing building footprints for Onondaga
> > County, NY from data provided by the Syracuse-Onondaga County
> > Planning
> > Agency. The data source was prepared for the county by “Pictometry
> > International using digital orthogonal
> > aerial photography flown by Pictometry”. The data have been updated
> > as
> > recently as October 2020 and not since, after checking with SOCPA.
> > It
> > is accurate to between 2 and 5 feet when compared against Bing
> > Imagery
> > or ESRI World Imagery. SOCPA has given OpenStreetMap a waiver to
> > use
> > this data, which has been verified by the legal team on their
> > mailing
> > list.
> > 
> > Recently I’ve been working on formalizing the conversion script and
> > wiki page, which is available here:
> > 
> > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue/Onondaga_County_NY_Building_Footprint_Import
> > 
> > To allow the community to review the import at this state, I have
> > created a shapefile from converted data for the Village of
> > Liverpool,
> > NY:
> > 
> > https://gitlab.com/jackarnold/onondaga-building-osm-import-example/-/raw/master/20210203/28_Village%20of%20Liverpool.geojson
> > 
> > I hope that there will be no issues with the data, and minimal
> > tweaking
> > to be required to move forward with the import. From here I will
> > manually verify the data against satellite imagery, then upload the
> > OSM
> > file to the test server, and verify it once again. With approval
> > from
> > the community, I will continue to import one municipality/town/or
> > smaller boundary at a time on the main server, and update the wiki
> > page
> > with my progress.
> > 
> > I would appreciate and comments, suggestions, or concerns!
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Jack
> > 
> > 
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