[Talk-ca] BC2020 project

[Matthew Darwin]

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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/Building_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/Building_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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