[Talk-ca] BC2020 project

[OSM Volunteer stevea]

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:
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> On 2018-01-28 07:38 PM, john whelan wrote:
>> We have lots of people talking about this.
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> Yay!
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>> We have a wiki page somewhere that covers some ground.  Could someone remind me of the address?
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> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada/Building_Canada_2020
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> needs lots of improvements.  I started.  I see Steve A did a bunch as well.
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>> Do we have anyone willing to project manage this? It is a very big project with lots of aspects and complications to it.
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> 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).
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>> 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.
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> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada/Building_Canada_2020#The_data_being_mapped
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> Although I think the list is impractical... how to get all the attributes listed?
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>> I am aware of public wif, levels, use ie commercial, residential.   There are some tiles set up somewhere for mapping and validation.
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>> Could we have a pointer to them please if they aren't on the wiki already.
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>> We have interest from schools and universities do we have any material that could be used for them?  
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>> 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."
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>> and "this is how you add a tag?"
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> 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).
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> 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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