[Talk-ca] Stat Can and buildings

[john whelan]

Thank you Paul I think that sums up the issue nicely, someone at Stats
Canada is going to have fun working out which tags are relevant to them
especially when some may be a different way to express the same thing.

Plus of course we have amenity=library etc which might not be tagged as a
building at all.

Fun times, I'm glad I'm retired from Stats Canada these days.

Cheerio John
On 15 Jun 2016 5:52 pm, "Paul Norman" <penorman at mac.com> wrote:

> On 6/15/2016 8:01 AM, john whelan wrote:
>
>>
>> As a first step Stats would like to know the tags used when mapping
>> buildings in Canada and the number of times used.  This is to get an idea
>> of what is already mapped and to see which values should be used when new
>> tags are added.  I looked at a small sample from Ottawa and noted 127
>> different tags on buildings including address tags.
>>
>> The other part of this is what is available under other tags than
>> building.  For example amenity=school etc.  I suspect school, college and
>> universities are fairly well mapped.
>>
>>
> Taginfo can tell you this information. No one is currently running a
> Canada-specific taginfo instance, but you can get an idea of numbers from
> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/building#combinations.
>
> There are about 800 keys used more than 1000 times on objects with
> building=*.
>
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