[Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

[John Whelan]

My suggestion would be to amend and clean up the original import plan to 
split out the country into regions and have a regional coordinator for 
each region based on local input.  I'd also add in the two other data 
sources as alternative data sources.

The reason for this approach is an amended import plan might be more 
acceptable to the import mailing list than new plans and in our smaller 
regions there may not be the resources to put together a full import 
plan for a thousand buildings.

Cheerio John

Nate Wessel wrote on 2019-09-28 1:37 PM:
>
> 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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