[Talk-ca] Manitoba buildings, addresses and high school work

[john whelan]

Looking at Brandon in OpenStreetMap many buildings are mapped but there
isn't much detail.

Stats was after things like the number of levels, house number, street
name, is the building commerical, residential, apartment.  There are some
70 or 80 different tags used for buildings in taginfo.  At the bit of
Brandon I looked at there were only two values used.  It was also after
amenties such as cafes etc.

These are all things that can be added with tools such as street complete.
Because you are adding tags to enrich the existing data you are unlikely to
to draw a building in the wrong place.

I'd go after enriching the existing data first before thinking of importing
more buildings.

Cheerio John

On 28 February 2018 at 10:31, keith hartley <keith.a.hartley at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi OSM'ers
>
> I am working on adding buildings to OSM in Manitoba and have a few
> questions. I was just offered an updated building footprint and address
> shape file from the City of Brandon, and agreement that it can be used in
> OSM. I understand that the license needs to be compliant with the OSMs of
> course, and will email the licensing group. The City uses a open data
> license similar to Ottawa's (can be seen here
> http://opengov.brandon.ca/terms.aspx) I can get  written consent in an
> email if need be as well. Currently the buildings are from the Manitoba
> land initiative website (MLI) and I can see that the city of Brandon Data
> is much more accurate (in both attributes and position) I will review the
> current data. Is there anything else I should be doing before I upload
> this?
>
> The plan is to have high school students look at the map and using walking
> maps or equivalent data capture (android app) to find what is accessible
> for people with mobility issues around their schools. I'll write the
> results on a wiki to show our successes. Anyone else have good ideas how to
> get students to add to the map? (with teacher oversight of course!)
>
> Cheers,
> Keith
>
>
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