[Talk-us] Hampton, Virginia imports

[Jonah Adkins]

the GEOID is the block group id - ill use that select sections for importing and delete it before i upload.  

the import is to help Virginia’s mappers, although i would not turn down help to import if anyone offered :)


> On Dec 22, 2015, at 11:25 AM, Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us> wrote:
> 
> Jonah,
> Other than a question about one tag, GEOID, the .osm file looks very good. 
> 
> If the GEOID is a persistent id from the city, I would recommend using something like addr:id=GEOID (assuming the GEOID was derived from the address id.)
> 
> When you import, it is helpful to use the address tags validator Map Paint Style in JOSM to catch mismatch between street names and addr:street names. 
> 
> In the wiki you said you were going to enlist the help of Virginia's mappers. Can you explain how you plan to break the work up? The wiki mentioned block groups. Are you going to use the Tasking Manager?
> 
> Clifford
> 
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 6:49 AM, Jonah Adkins <jonahadkins at gmail.com <mailto:jonahadkins at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Hey OSM-ers.
> 
> I'd like to propose an import of city-sourced GIS data for the City of Hampton, Va.
> The City GIS Office has given the data / license for this purpose. 
> 
> There were only 5 building-type attributes in the source data, so i’ve done some amenity classifying based on the structure name (schools/churches,etc). All residential was attributed the same, so I will attempt to split out houses & apartments based on building square footage.
> 59k Total Buildings 
> 43k Buildings Addressed - 73% !!
> 
> Conflation will be done carefully by hand, and attributes copied where needed.
> Github -> https://github.com/jonahadkins/hampton-OSM-imports <https://github.com/jonahadkins/hampton-OSM-imports>
> Wiki -> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/City_of_Hampton_Buildings/Address_Import <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/City_of_Hampton_Buildings/Address_Import>
> This message has been cross-posted in Talk-US, Imports-US, & Imports.
> Thanks
> -jonah
> 
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