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

[Robert Banick]

Very interesting, let me talk to my coworkers and get back to you on that.
Perhaps the Japanese OSM community would have some ideas.

On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 6:59 PM Jonathan Schleuss <jschleuss at me.com> wrote:

> 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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