[Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

[john whelan]

We should start somewhere so yes it would be fun.

Thanks John

On Sat, Jan 25, 2020, 3:15 PM Daniel @jfd553, <jfd553 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Bonjour groupe,
>
> The pre-processing procedure has been tested for the Squamish (BC) area.
> Squamish has a small number of buildings (6K) with a good Esri World
> imagery which need to be aligned with ODB data. A large number of ODB
> buildings show an inaccurate delineation (shaky drawing with too many
> nodes). Orthogonalization worked great but the result is not perfect
> because of the quality of the data. About 10% of the nodes were removed
> from the dataset. It contains all the problems we may encounter during this
> import. Consequently, I suggest that the import procedure be discussed and
> documented in detail using this case.
>
> I could identify myself as the local import manager, but I would much
> prefer someone from the area to volunteer. When the local contributors have
> been contacted, and as long as there are no objections, we could start an
> import project in the OSMCanada task manager. Pre-processed data are
> available. We only have to make it available to the task manager. We also
> have to provide the task manager with the working areas (tasks) adjusted to
> 200 buildings per task. I am currently working to define these working
> areas, but if someone else can build it in the meantime it would be great.
>
> Once the import project has been configured in the task manager,
> interested contributors will have to identify themselves in talk-ca in
> order to add them as authorized contributors (James, am I right?)
>
> Would it be fun to try this?
>
> Daniel
>
>
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