[Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

Tue Dec 24 23:26:30 UTC 2019

I'll get back to you in a couple of days:-)

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Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

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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