[Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

[Nate Wessel]

I for one would be happy to support a local effort to import high 
quality buildings in Toronto and/or the GTA. I think if we can actually 
meet up face to face our discussions may remain a bit more civil and 
productive. Hopefully consensus will be a bit easier to achieve with 
smaller groups too!

I see that the OSM Toronto meetup 
<https://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Toronto/> doesn't have any 
upcoming events... Would others in the GTA be interested in planning a 
meet up to talk about a local import plan? Is anyone on the list in 
charge of organizing these?

Best,

Nate Wessel, PhD
Planner, Cartographer, Transport Nerd
NateWessel.com <http://www.natewessel.com>

On 2019-09-28 1:03 p.m., Jarek Piórkowski wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> To be a bit more positive:
>
> If we want to get buildings on the map, but we can't get Canada-wide
> data improved by Statcan to a standard acceptable to all mappers in
> Canada, IMO the best bet will be to split this into much smaller
> batches and support local mappers who would be interested in getting
> the data in.
>
> In my browsing of neis-one.org statistics for Canadian mappers and the
> Notes active in Canada, I've seen active mappers and small communities
> in at least Halifax, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, and Victoria
> metros, and I might have missed some more. Many of them I have never
> seen on the mailing list (which is a whole another issue), but
> contacting them directly (via osm.org messages?), asking if they are
> aware of other local mappers, if they would be interested in having
> building data, if it is of acceptable standard to them, and if they
> would be willing to help validate-and-upload the data (with help of
> the central tooling) might get some success.
>
> I hope that will go better than the previous attempt which could be
> read - uncharitably - as a bunch of mailing list insiders throwing
> federal data over the fence with little consultation.
>
> It'll be a lot of work communicating and organizing. But getting
> buildings is a lot of work, and if data producers can't do better,
> whoever wants the buildings will have to do the work. Maybe with more
> local support even the imports list will be more bearable.
>
> Thanks,
> --Jarek
>
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