[Tagging] Tagging individual properties?

John Smith deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 19 19:18:30 BST 2010


On 19 August 2010 23:09, Tyler Gunn <tyler at egunn.com> wrote:
>
> I'm curious, what would be the best way to tag the boundaries of
> individual properties?  Or SHOULD I even attempt this?

A way to do this would be to map any fence lines marking the boundaries.

> The Cadestral data for Manitoba is available from the Manitoba Lands
> Initiative under a free for use license, so I was thinking of incorporating
> this data.

Have you checked it for accuracy? The DCDBLite data for Qld had ok
accuracy in some areas, but in others it has lots and lots of mistakes
and out of date information and incorrect positioning.

> I've converted a bit of the data, opting to merge all the lots into larger
> blocks to indicate the landuse of residential, park, etc.  It's kinda nice
> because it also gives you a guide for aligning the roads; they should
> typically be in between the landuse areas.

We ended up using the DCDB data here to map other features like
railway lines and waterways, rather than the property boundaries
themselves.

> Opinions?

Depending on the quality of the data it may be a very bad thing to do,
this is typically referred to as implopping and with everything else
everyone wants to map the bad data is never touched or updated and
left to rot.

If this is mainly for your own use, you may be better converting it to
KML or your own pgsql DB and making a transparent layer, rather than
putting it directly into the OSM DB.



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