[Talk-us-massachusetts] Map of every building in the US

[John Goodman]

I saw that and got kind of excited, but after downloading the dataset, 
importing some of it into JOSM and spot checking, it was clear that the 
footprints were really quite crude and (in my mind) unusable. YMMV.

John



On 2018.10.21 08:03, Alan & Ruth Bragg wrote:
> The New York Times recently publish an article about Microsoft's release 
> to the public  building footprints
> 
> https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/12/us/map-of-every-building-in-the-united-states.html
> 
> Clifford Snow, has prepared OSM tasks for experienced JOSM users to 
> import these buildings on the FL panhandle.
> For example:
> 
> 
>     #90 - Bay County FL Building & Address Import for Hurricane Michael
>     Recover Efforts <https://tasks.openstreetmap.us/project/90>
> 
> I had to set up a new OSM account to do this work because it involves 
> "importing" data. The name must include the word "import"
> 
> There's a potential here to add missing buildings to Massachusetts. We 
> just need to figure out a simple process.
> 
> There's discussion about this on the OSM Slack 
> https://osmus.slack.com under #disasters channel