[Talk-ca] Stats Can building import

[John Whelan]

Currently we seem to be at the point where some on the mailing list feel 
there wasn't enough discussion on talk-ca before the import.

Quebec I think we should put on one side until theQuebec mappers feel 
more comfortable.

Nate I feel has been involved in a smaller import before and in that 
case there was benefit by simplifying the outlines.  In this case 
verifying nothing gets screwed up adds to the cost.

Buildings not absolutely square, yes but different GIS systems use 
different accuracy so if the incoming data has a few more decimal places 
then rounding will occur which can lead to minor inaccuracies. I feel 
the simplest is just to leave them.  Selecting everything and squaring 
is really a mechanical edit and you can get some odd results which again 
would need to be carefully compared and adds to the workload.

California Steve has put forward some proposals in the 2020 page of the 
wiki which to me amount to minor variations on what we were doing.  The 
intent always was to involve local mappers but locating them is not 
always easy.

The 2020 project is about not only adding building outlines but also 
about enriching the tags on them and that to me is more important.

I'm not hearing specific concerns which can be addressed and I'd like to 
hear them.

So question to Daniel Begin, Andrew Lester and Pierre what can we do to 
improve the project?

Is there anything else people would like to discuss about either the 
2020 project or the building outline import?

Thanks John



Danny McDonald wrote on 2019-01-26 9:55 AM:
> Personally, I'm eager to re-start importing, but I'd like to hear what 
> Nate has to offer.  Nate, are you OK with the wiki import process as 
> written?  If not, are there specific things you want changed?  The 
> current process is the one Yaro followed, although John and I 
> basically did the same thing (I didn't always replace existing 
> building footprints unless the geometry was really bad).  It doesn't 
> seem that the building data has been simplified, although this should 
> be an easy fix.
>
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