[Talk-ca] Microsoft has released its building outlines for Canada
OSM Volunteer stevea
steveaOSM at softworkers.com
Sat Mar 2 22:52:28 UTC 2019
No, I am not planning to import these. However, your notification that the data are available seems to be encouraging the data to BE imported into OSM. Of course, there is a "more correct" way to do that.
Perhaps I might encourage you to sharpen up your intention for notifying talk-ca of the availability of the data. Are they an additional source to ENTER into OSM? (Thus importing them). Or, perhaps you mean them to be a set of "comparison data" which might be used to verify or compare against the "other" data. Although, then, should there be a discrepancy, the question becomes "which are (more) correct?" I didn't see any of these issues addressed by your notification, which feel likes it begs these questions. Thank you in advance for any follow-up that better clarifies.
Late notice just before I clicked Send: thanks to James for letting us know here that the data are ODbL and therefore OSM-compatible. (One down, perhaps a bit more to go).
SteveA
> On Mar 2, 2019, at 2:40 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Why are you planning to import it?
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> Cheerio John
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> On Sat, Mar 2, 2019, 5:26 PM OSM Volunteer stevea, <steveaOSM at softworkers.com> wrote:
> A responsible complement to this would be a link to license information, a wiki page about these data, and perhaps an Import Plan should those data actually be asserted to be worthy of being responsibly imported into OSM.
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> SteveA
> California
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> > On Mar 2, 2019, at 2:17 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > https://github.com/Microsoft/CanadianBuildingFootprints
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> > So now there are two Open Data sources for building outlines in Canada.
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> > Cheerio John
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