[Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

[john whelan]

What I'm after is the osm map for the area that way I can load it into JOSM
and search for buildings missing the tags.  Are we adding building tags to
amenity=place-of_worship?

Thanks John

On 2 August 2016 at 18:17, James <james2432 at gmail.com> wrote:

> would a GeoJSON help you? I have both city limits in geoJSON format
>
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 5:59 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> In order to identify those buildings that need extra tags it would be
>> extremely useful to have a map of Ottawa / Gatineau that could be loaded
>> into JOSM.  The Ontario map is too big and doesn't contain  Gatineau.
>>
>> Does anyone have a suitable cut down .OSM file?  I have a web site that
>> could host it / them.  Even if the data is slightly out of date it would
>> give us a clue which buildings are lacking building:levels for example and
>> many of which can be added from memory.  That way only the tiny bit of the
>> map need be downloaded before being edited in JOSM or what ever the editor
>> of choice is.
>>
>> Thanks John
>>
>> On 2 Aug 2016 3:56 pm, "john whelan" <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Most buildings in Ottawa are wheelchair accessible do you want them
>>> tagged as such, we also have a tag for toilets:wheelchair
>>> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:toilets:wheelchair> which means
>>> States if a location has a wheelchair accessible toilet or not.  I think
>>> this might be useful to map anyway.
>>>
>>> Cheerio John
>>>
>>> On 2 August 2016 at 14:46, Ellefsen, Bjenk (STATCAN) <
>>> bjenk.ellefsen at canada.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>
>>>> Here is what we would invite Canadians to tell us about buildings for
>>>> OSM:
>>>>
>>>> name
>>>> Address:
>>>>
>>>>    - Number
>>>>    - street
>>>>    - city
>>>>    - postal code
>>>>
>>>> levels
>>>> office, shop
>>>> type of access (handicap, etc.)
>>>>
>>>> If there is a way to categorize them as residential, non-residential
>>>> that would be perfect.
>>>>
>>>> What do you think? Anything else we should add?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Bjenk Ellefsen, PhD
>>>>
>>>> Data Exploration and Integration Lab (DEIL) | Lab pour l’exploration et
>>>> l’intégration de données (LEID)
>>>> Center for Special Business Projects | Centre des Projets Spéciaux sur
>>>> les entreprises
>>>> Statistics Canada | Statistique Canada
>>>> (343) 998-3004
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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