[Talk-ca] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

[Alan Richards]

I like it overall. Nice to see more quality data being added, and I'm
personally pretty pro-import generally.

However, just from following this list, I was surprised that the import was
suddenly being done. I recall seeing messages about the possibility of a
project, and it sounded like it was slowly moving forward, but there wasn't
a lot of activity. It is clear now that a lot of the discussion was
happening offline at local meetups. To me this is fine with an active
community like Ottawa has, but perhaps the fact that this was going on
should have been shared back to the mailing list to show the progress that
was happening. The fact that a tasking manager was actually running and
data being imported and verified was quite a surprise, and obviously then
led to the unwanted revert.

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 11:49 AM, John Marshall <rps333 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Looks good to me.
>
> I only would add if there are multiple buildings and it is not not clear
> what  the correct address are, local survey may be required. Then add a
> note like this: https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/741666
>
>
> John
>
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 1:57 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> A comment the data is of high quality and the building outlines are of
>> particular interest to the Stats Canada Project where Statistics Canada is
>> attempting to crowd source adding tags added to non residential buildings
>> within the City of Ottawa and Gatineau.  These include the number of levels
>> and the use of the building.  They will be suggesting using a customised iD
>> to their general public but given the experience of iD mapping buildings in
>> HOT it was thought that importing the building outlines would give a better
>> quality map at the end.
>>
>> Cheerio John
>>
>> On 19 October 2016 at 13:45, James <james2432 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Seems like a good enough time like any other to talk about the import of
>>> Ottawa buildings and addresses into OpenStreetMap.
>>>
>>> Documentation is available here:
>>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Ontario:Ottawa/Import/Plan
>>>
>>> Discussion with local mappers has happened in person for multiple
>>> months(community buy in is very high in these meetings and we all saw
>>> benefit in including this data) :
>>> https://www.meetup.com/openstreetmap-ottawa/
>>>
>>> Once positive discussion of a period of 2 weeks has been met, we would
>>> like to start the import of said data.
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
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