[Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

[John Whelan]

I think the first problem to be addressed is the presence or absence of 
a local community.

In the north we have few mappers but lots of interested agencies and 
people in seeing the buildings imported.

Montreal I think is under control.  Toronto is in the process of sorting 
itself out but I'm unclear how much territory the Toronto local group 
covers.

Vancouver should be big enough to support a local group.  As should 
Calgary and Edmonton.

Ottawa is complete as is Gatineau.

It's the smaller cities and regions that would be my concern.  Often it 
will be by chance that two or more mappers meet occasionally.

So step one can we list the local groups?

I also have a problem with what happens if two people agree but haven't 
done any mapping are they a local group?

Step two to me would be a consensus on how to tackle those areas without 
a local group and I think Daniel's suggestion would be a way forward in 
this area.

Cheerio John



James wrote on 2019-12-24 1:28 PM:
> wasn't there talk about this before and someone blocked it because of 
> non-square buildings and the resulting discussion was that each 
> community was going to decide if they want to import or not?
>
> On Tue., Dec. 24, 2019, 1:26 p.m. Daniel @jfd553, <jfd553 at hotmail.com 
> <mailto:jfd553 at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Group!
>
>     I am currently working on a proposal which, I hope, will bring
>     consensus among the community and relaunch the import of ODB
>     footprints (StatCan). The proposal should be ready in a few weeks,
>     or sooner.
>
>     In the meantime, I suggest to all those who are interested to take
>     note of the observations I made regarding these data. This
>     information can be found in the OSM wiki (1). According to OSM
>     import guideline requirements, it describes the data to import. At
>     the same time, I updated the Canada-federal section of the Data
>     Potential wiki page (2).
>
>     I will be offline in the next few days, so if you have any
>     questions/comments, please be patient :-)
>
>     Daniel
>
>     1 - https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/The_Open_Database_of_Buildings
>
>     2 -
>     https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potential_Datasources#Federal_.28Open_Government.29
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