[Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

[John Whelan]

So an approach would be to pick off those areas with good data available 
first with few existing buildings mapped?

Such as Victoria or Courtenay in BC

Burlington, Caledon, Barrie in Ontario

Then move forward based on that experience?

I'd feel more comfortable with a mapper from the province at least 
coordinating the mapping even if there wasn't a local group.

How would we tackle places such as Perth? Smith Falls and Brockville 
which are available in Bing if not other sources?  These are in Ontario 
and fairly local to Ottawa by the way.

Thanks John

Daniel @jfd553 wrote on 2019-12-24 6:04 PM:
> Have a look at the wiki page I referred to. Further discussions will 
> be more easy and focused
>
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> *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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