[Talk-ca] Building Import

[OSM Volunteer stevea]

Ah, good dialog ensues.  Municipality by municipality, in conjunction with BOTH the StatsCan and Bing data, the right things are getting noticed, the right things are getting human-realized at what the next steps are to do.  It gets better.

Yay.  Stitch it together.  One municipality at a time.  One province at a time.  Pretty soon, after a few revisions of data and back-and-forths between municipalities and province-wide data checking, you've got something.  There, you go.

SteveA

> On Mar 27, 2019, at 8:23 PM, keith hartley <keith.a.hartley at gmail.com> wrote:
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> The patchwork of municipalities is at least useful, before we didn't have a framework for adding this data, but at least we do now thanks to the umbrella license @ Stats Canada. We're a big country with very few, but very skilled OSM mappers (IE gecho111 mapped all of regina's building footprints! ).
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> I like the concept of the Bing data, but they may have to do another few tries, or maybe retain their Neural network. - Is there anywhere where the Bing data looks nice? I found burbs in Winnipeg not bad, but there's some really weird elements when the source data is too simple (buildings in the middle of fields) or too complex (urban cores) 
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> On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 6:29 AM John Whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Stats Canada data comes from the municipalities.  Unfortunately there are over 3,000 in Canada so yes ideally each would be treated separately in reality each municipality doesn't have a group of skilled OSM mappers who are capable of setting up an import plan and doing the work although there is nothing to stop them doing so.
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> Cheerio John