[Talk-GB] building shapes from OS Street View

[Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)]

Ed Loach wrote:
>Sent: 05 April 2010 7:48 PM
>To: David Earl; Graham Jones
>Cc: TimSC; talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] building shapes from OS Street View
>
>While I tweeted a couple of days ago that the shape of our house is wrong
>on Streetview, I do want to
>A) trace the simplified rectangles a street at a time.
>B) use walking papers to add the house numbers.
>I see this as probably quicker and even with simplified shapes better
>results than me stopping by every house and adding a custom text waypoint
>with text of house number (osmmapper), as I canwrite while walking rather
>than stopping for hopefully best possible GPS fix.
>
>I wouldn't locally want building outlines locally for streets I haven't got
>lined up to house number by foot, as it would make keeping track of
>progress harder.
>

I can see myself doing this. I also think it will encourage folks to go out
at collect street data. A building block even a badly drawn one, is still
better than no block at all.


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>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com>
>Sent: 05 April 2010 19:14
>To: Graham Jones <grahamjones139 at googlemail.com>
>Cc: TimSC <mapping at sheerman-chase.org.uk>; talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] building shapes from OS Street View
>
>On 05/04/2010 18:41, Graham Jones wrote:
>> I would like to see a plugin for josm that takes a raster input
>> (landsat, yahoo, StreetView) and processes it into 'draft' ways around
>> areas of constant(ish) colour - the user then tidies it up and tags it
>> before uploading (ie I would be very wary of a 'blind' import!).
>
>On 05/04/2010 18:52, Robert Scott wrote:
> > What about supervised 'imports', using a josm/potlatch plugin
>
>Much, much better IMO. I dread the idea of any automated imports for the
>UK into OSM. Tools to automate tracing while being manually aware of
>what is already there and the flaws in the automation is so much better
>than trying to import and screwing up what's already there, duplicating
>stuff and adding poor quality automation flaws.
>
>David
>
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