[Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

Tue Dec 24 23:04:58 UTC 2019

Have a look at the wiki page I referred to. Further discussions will be more easy and focused

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From: John Whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2019 2:50:29 PM
To: James <james2432 at gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel @jfd553 <jfd553 at hotmail.com>; Talk-CA OpenStreetMap <talk-ca at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

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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