[Talk-ca] Building Import update

[john whelan]

I'm not certain how this addresses the concerns raised by Andrew Lester and
Pierre Béland, and I seem to recall one other person who expressed concerns.

I think it is important that their concerns are addressed.

Perhaps they would be kind enough to comment on whether or not this
approach addresses their concerns.

Do we have a concern that some mappers have been importing buildings
further than say twenty kilometers from where they live?


Have you found volunteers of local mappers in
Alberta
British Columbia
Manitoba
New Brunswick
Newfoundland and Labrador
Northwest Territories
Nova Scotia
Nunavut
Ontario
Prince Edward Island
Quebec
Saskatchewan
Yukon

Who will be willing to oversee the import in each province?

Does this mean the smaller provinces may not see any data?

How will you handle cities of say 80,000 population in a smaller province
who have an interest in seeing their buildings available but have no idea
on how to contact the provincial group?



If we go back to earlier times it was a suggestion in talk-ca that we use
the single import approach and it was mentioned at the time there didn't
seem to be a list of local mapper groups in Canada.

I'm not saying the approach of a single import as far as the import list
and talk-ca followed by a procedure of locally organised mappers bringing
in the data is wrong I'm just trying to ensure the project moves forward
and we are in agreement.

Thanks

Cheerio John

On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 at 00:17, OSM Volunteer stevea <
steveaOSM at softworkers.com> wrote:

> Thanks to some good old-fashioned OSM collaboration, both the
> https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Canada_Building_Import and
> https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada/Building_Canada_2020#NEWS.2C_January_2019
> have been updated.  (The latter points to the former).
>
> In short, it says there are now step-by-steps to begin an import for a
> particular province, and that as the steps get fine-tuned (they look good,
> but might get minor improvements), building a community of at least one or
> two mappers in each of the provinces with data available, the Tasking
> Manager can and will lift the "On Hold" or "Stopped" status.
>
> Nice going, Canada!
>
> See you later,
>
> SteveA
> California
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