[Talk-us] Join us for another import party at the L.A. Times June 25

[Jonathan Schleuss]

Thanks, Robert.

I do have some structural information about some types of earthquake-risk buildings. We have a database of "dingbats" that Los Angeles city is mandating be retrofitted or proved safe over the next few years. These are apartment buildings with parking underneath the dwelling spaces, which are supported by small poles. A lot of these collapsed during the last major quake in the 90s.

Adding this has come up in meetings before. I haven't spent too much time thinking about it. I'd love any ideas and suggestions.

Database: http://graphics.latimes.com/soft-story-apartments-needing-retrofit/
Story: http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-quake-risk-20160415-story.html
New github repo to track this idea: https://github.com/socal-osm/earthquake-risk

Jon

On Jun 30, 2016, at 10:50 AM, Robert Banick <rbanick at gmail.com> wrote:

Hey Jonathon,

This looks great, it’s fantastic to see the LA Times leading on this work. Adding buildings to LA is super cool. Having grown up in suburbanized Atlanta I know it’s a lot harder to wander about and add buildings than in, say, New York or Berlin. 

Quick question: do you all have any structural information about the buildings related to earthquake safety? If so I’d be interested in what tagging schema you’re using for them. I work with OSM for disaster management in my day job so I’m always keeping an eye out for good ideas from others.

Keep it up and don’t let the usual import haters get you down.

- Robert


On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 6:37 PM Rihards <richlv at nakts.net> wrote:
On 2016.06.30. 17:58, Michael Reichert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Fri, 17 Jun 2016 22:20:46 +0000 schrieb Jonathan Schleuss:
>> The Los Angeles Times will host another import party to push the "Great
>> L.A. County Import" forward. We've imported more than half a million
>> buildings with the great help of locals and the folks from Mapbox.
>
> Did each participant use a separate account for this import?
>
>> My focus is to use this import strengthen the Southern California OSM
>> community. But, the project is open to all. If you're in the area,
>> please join us.
>
> Do you really believe that this helps the local community? A healthy map
> has a strong community and a strong community consists out of people who
> look after their neighbourhood on the map (i.e. keep data up to date).

a good import motivates local mappers. when they see that the map is
kinda there but a pub, shop or housenumber is missing, it easier for
them to start.
if they see blank area, they go "why bother".
building outlines are very hard to collect for amateur mappers, and it
is a large amount of work even with good sources.

i'd like to say thank you to everybody who has done a proper, careful
building import (no overlaps with existing buildings, no nodes on
straight sections, orthogonalised etc :) ) - i know it was a lot of work.
...
--
  Rihards

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