[Talk-ca] BC2020 project

Wed Feb 7 14:48:52 UTC 2018

Hi there,

I am a technical writer and also a geoinformation pro. What can  I do for
you guys?

Is this still needed?

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On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 9:21 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've added an introduction which sums it up.
>
> If I'm polite about it there is material in the wiki which suggest
> bringing building footprints using automated tools such as image scanners
> and imports are the way forward.  Scanning hasn't been accepted by OSM and
> imports have their own set of issuse.  If I'm not polite about it there is
> much that needs to be stripped out.
>
> The text could do with being rewritten.  It appears to me to be long
> winded and aspires to many things but seems short on practicalities.
>
> Do we have any technical writers who could look it over?
>
> Thanks
>
> Cheerio John
>
> On 28 January 2018 at 19:50, OSM Volunteer stevea <
> steveaOSM at softworkers.com> wrote:
>
>> And...you're off and running (better and better).
>>
>> This is a process, everybody.  Nobody wants to be slapping anybody
>> around.  I like the way we've been polite and patient with each other here.
>>
>> Regards,
>> SteveA
>>
>> > On Jan 28, 2018, at 4:47 PM, Matthew Darwin <matthew at mdarwin.ca> wrote:
>> >
>> > Inline
>> > On 2018-01-28 07:38 PM, john whelan wrote:
>> >> We have lots of people talking about this.
>> >
>> > Yay!
>> >
>> >> We have a wiki page somewhere that covers some ground.  Could someone
>> remind me of the address?
>> >
>> > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada/Build
>> ing_Canada_2020
>> >
>> > needs lots of improvements.  I started.  I see Steve A did a bunch as
>> well.
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Do we have anyone willing to project manage this? It is a very big
>> project with lots of aspects and complications to it.
>> >
>> > I have not heard of any. I am willing to help some, but it really needs
>> to be a full-time person (or bunch of people to make it to full time).
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Do we have a list of attributes that should be added to buildings?  If
>> they aren't on the wiki then I think they should be.
>> >
>> > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada/Build
>> ing_Canada_2020#The_data_being_mapped
>> >
>> > Although I think the list is impractical... how to get all the
>> attributes listed?
>> >
>> >> I am aware of public wif, levels, use ie commercial, residential.
>>  There are some tiles set up somewhere for mapping and validation.
>> >>
>> >> Could we have a pointer to them please if they aren't on the wiki
>> already.
>> >>
>> >> We have interest from schools and universities do we have any material
>> that could be used for them?
>> >>
>> >> Do we have a "hello to help with this project please use Bing imagery
>> with JOSM building_tool plugin on the following tiles.  If you use iD
>> please be very careful and map the building outlines exactly."
>> >>
>> >> and "this is how you add a tag?"
>> >>
>> > Needs to be added.  The folks doing Ottawa buildings recently probably
>> have the best experiences to provide guidence to newbies.  Also probably
>> should be a template for the tasking manager to point at.  (For all the
>> building related tasks).
>> >
>> > If the Ottawa/Gatineau experience teaches us anything, I suspect that
>> doing buildings is going to be a multi-step process per
>> municipality/region/province.   Import stuff, manually map stuff, add more
>> tags, whatever...  ie going from zero buildings to "perfect" buildings in
>> one shot is not reasonable.
>> >
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