[Talk-us-maine] Importing building with MapWithAI test

[Alex Hennings]

Smock, are you a developer behind MapWithAI?

Regarding: "The conflation service _should_ only be returning buildings
that do not exist in OSM"
Many of the addresses imported in Maine arrived as building nodes. I hope
the plugin turns those into building polygons?

What geometry does the plugin use to decide to absorb a point or not? Is it
only if the point is INSIDE the building polygon? Does it handle
multi-polygons?
What if multiple points fall inside the building? What if they don't have
any conflicting tags?
Do the tags on a node effect if it is absorbed into a building (like
skipping nodes with fixme=*, or gnis:reviewed=no which I strongly
recommend)?
Ouch, that source tag <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:source>. Why
is that a property of the building
<https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/813605828>?

These are some of the problems I tried to solve during the address import,
so I'm very curious how others approached them.

On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 8:56 AM <smocktaylor at gmail.com> wrote:

> 1) Thank you for using the MapWithAI plugin. :)
> 2) You cannot use Google Imagery due to copyright. Sorry. :(
> That being said, `MapBox Satellite` is great for resolution in the
> areas I've looked at in Maine, while `Maxar Premium` is great for newer
> construction.
>
> The conflation service _should_ only be returning buildings that do not
> exist in OSM (I believe it is a simple intersect -- so if a poorly
> drawn building intersects another building, the second building won't
> be downloaded).
>
> On Sun, 2020-06-07 at 08:14 -0400, Alan & Ruth Bragg wrote:
> > I experimented with MapWithAI today adding 133 buildings and 2 ways
> > to Cranberry Island using the JOSM "MapWithAI" plug-in
> >
> > Click to see buildings I added
> >
> > The tool automatically merged 23 of the imported address nodes to
> > buildings
> >
> > The microsoft buildings were as good as I would have drawn them.
> > Only 3 roads were suggested. 2 were valid driveway and 1 was a long
> > curved section of gravel beach where the rack line looked like the
> > edge of a road. I had to zoom in with good google imagery to see that
> > it wasn't a road.
> >
> >
> > To start you press Ctrl-R (MapWithAI:download data) to create a new
> > "MapWithAI"  layer. If you already have several layers open it asks
> > you to select your data layer.
> > The tool prevents you from selecting more that 5 buildings at a time
> > which helps ensure that you actually looked at the imagery. You then
> > press shift-A (MapWithAI:Add Selected Data) and they are copied to
> > the data layer. After you've added 50 buildings/ways it forces you to
> > make an upload.
> >
> > Warning: the tool is going to download all the buildings in your data
> > area so start by selecting something smallish. On my first try I was
> > looking at an area about 1/3 the size of Hancock County and JOSM
> > slowed to a halt as the data downloaded.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us-maine/attachments/20200607/294e438c/attachment.htm>