[Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

[Steve Singer]

On Sat, 28 Sep 2019, Nate Wessel wrote:

> 
> 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 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?

I am one of the organizers of the OSM Toronto meetup.

I've now posted the regular monthly mappy hour meetup for the Toronto OSM 
group. I had been meaning to do this anyway.

I'm also happy to post a special event dedicated to discussing an import in 
the GTA if people are interested.




> 
> Best,
> 
> Nate Wessel, PhD
> Planner, Cartographer, Transport Nerd
> 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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