[Talk-ca] Building Footprint Upload to OSM

[Matthew Darwin]

Rob,

One other thing to think about while others are discussing the 
licensing topic:  What is the quality of the buildings?  Has that been 
reviewed?

  * Are they in the right place?
  * Are they the right size?
  * Are they squared off (rectangles)
  * Are they aligned to each other and the road (not slightly mis-aligned)
  * Are they current (not buildings which have been torn down or
    otherwise changed)
  * If there are attributes like "height" in your dataset, is that
    accurate?
  * etc...

I've not worked much on buildings, but probably others could add 
comments about what are the criteria for "good buildings".


On 2018-03-06 11:05 AM, Rob Halko wrote:
>
> Good morning,
>
> The Region of Durham has recently purchased Building Footprints data 
> for the entire Region, and it is available as Open Data: 
> http://opendata.durham.ca/datasets/building-footprints
>
> We would like to import these to Open Street Map to engage the 
> community and help improve the overall map. We are supporters of OSM 
> and wish to regularly partner in improving the data.
>
> In particular, we are hosting a mapathon on March 29, which asks for 
> student input to add attributes to the buildings based on OSM 
> guidelines for the Building Canada 2020 project: 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada/Building_Canada_2020#The_data_that_could_be_mapped
>
> We have read your Import guidelines and are here to express our 
> interest in contributing our building data. The intention is not to 
> overwrite those buildings that the community has built, but bridge 
> the gap to include the rest of the 200,000+ buildings in Durham 
> (largely residential), which are missing from OSM.
>
> Please let us know how we can contribute this valuable data on 
> behalf of the community.
>
> <http://www.durham.ca/>
>
> 	
>
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