[Talk-GB] building shapes from OS Street View

Graham Jones grahamjones139 at googlemail.com
Fri Apr 9 22:32:40 BST 2010


Hi Tim,
That is exactly the sort of thing I had envisaged writing - you have nearly
finished before I got started - well done!

Graham.

On 9 April 2010 22:25, TimSC <mapping at sheerman-chase.org.uk> wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> I have been working on auto tracing buildings and I'm making progress. I
> was slightly encouraged by Ed Avis's comments. I think one underlying
> difference is peoples attitude to omissions in map data. Many people
> think they are a good thing, particularly since they encourage the
> community to do high quality surveying. But I think omissions are bad in
> terms of actually using the map. I don't think we should be using the
> main map to gauge our progress. I suspect what we need is good meta data
> - how and when data is sourced. Anyway enough rambling...
>
> Tracing buildings. I have been using the original images, since image
> transformations tend to introduce degradation of quality. I use colour
> to select building pixels, then form edge fragments, then form polygons,
> then simplify the polygons using the Douglas-Peucker algorithm, then
> group them so we get inner and outer edges, then tranform image
> coordinates to GBOS then to WGS84 via OSTN02 (I ported the perl code to
> python), then save as OSM format and load back into JOSM. Screenshot:
> http://timsc.dev.openstreetmap.org/dev/josm-building-outlines.png
>
> The next steps are to improve the quality of the polygon shapes,
> possibly by checking if the edges are nearly orthogonal, and if so
> making them completely orthogonal. Also I need to write a filter to
> check for buildings in the area, to avoid importing duplicate buildings.
> I need to look at the simplification, as sometimes an extra node is
> added to a polygon (the initial node used as the start of the
> algorithm). I am also considering detecting roads that overlap buildings
> in the source images, since this is probably the biggest loss of
> quality. The result I am getting is already more spatially detailed than
> my own survey of the University of Surrey campus (although not as rich
> in information).
>
> In the medium term, I will import some buildings once I have the quality
> I want. I want to minimise manual work in JOSM but I don't rule it out.
> I will only be working in the Guildford area - it's my data to gamble
> around there :)
>
> TimSC
>
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Dr. Graham Jones
Hartlepool, UK
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