[Talk-us] [Imports-us] OSM-Colorado Mappy Hour Denver Buildings Import Discussion

Mike Thompson miketho16 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 25 01:40:49 UTC 2017


The data here:
http://gis.drcog.org/datacatalog/content/planimetrics-2014-building-roofprints

Doesn't seem to match the description on the wiki.  Perhaps it has already
been converted partly to the OSM tagging (e.g. sheds and garages are
separate)?



On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 6:20 PM, Mike Thompson <miketho16 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Russ,
>
> This is very exciting to see this coming along.  Let me know how I can
> help. Hopefully we can use its success to convince other government bodies
> in Colorado to allow us to import their data into OSM!  Here are a few
> comments.
>
> re: "The Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG), in partnership
> with local governments and public entities, has purchased detailed
> infrastructure data..." - This makes it sound like they purchased a
> commercial dataset, which raises questions about licensing in my mind.  I
> suspect that what happened is they "contracted for the collection of
> detailed infrastructure data..." In other words, it was work for hire, and
> they own all rights to the data,. Therefore, as long as the right official
> within DRCOG signs off, we are good (no third party vendor has any
> ownership rights in the data and doesn't have to be consulted). If this is
> in fact the case, someone may wish to change the wording.
>
> "Tagging Plans", "OTHER_TAG" - does this contain any useful information we
> can map to OSM tags?
>
> re: "Building Roofprints (poly) - Stereo-compiled (3D)"
> * Where applicable, are the buildings in the source data orthogonal
> (square corners) - like we try to create in OSM?
> * re "multi-level commercial/industrial buildings" I presume this means a
> building that has multiple roof heights, not multiple levels/floors inside
> the building. For example a building that has one section that is two
> stories high and has a roof height of 20 feet, and another section that is
> three stories high and has a roof height of 30 feet.
> * re "multi-level commercial/industrial buildings" - consider relations
> to group the various building parts together. [1]
>
> A "parking structure" should probably be tagged:
> amenity=parking
> parking=multi-storey  [3]
> (not sure it should get a building tag)
>
> A "tank" should probably not be tagged as building=, but rather just
> man_made=storage_tank [2]
>
> Not all "medical" buildings will be hospitals.
>
> Nothing is said about how the features other than buildings will be
> imported.
>
> Nothing is said about how the imported data will be conflated with the
> existing OSM data (I see there is a place holder).
>
> re "Merge Colorado Office of Information Technology (OIT) state address
> layer..." - does this data have a ODbL compatible license?
>
> Mike
>
> [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Simple_3D_buildings
> [2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dstorage_tank
> [3] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dparking
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Russell Deffner <russdeffner at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Greetings all, this is a cross-post :)
>>
>>
>>
>> For some of you this may be old news/reminder.  Last spring the Denver
>> Regional Council of Governments approached our local group, OSM-Colorado
>> <https://www.meetup.com/OSM-Colorado/>, to discuss if and how a ton of
>> planimetric data that they have collected and released as public domain
>> could also be added to OpenStreetMap.  Since then we’ve been discussing
>> with the local mappers and working together with DRCOG to prepare a pilot
>> import for their building dataset and we’re very close to that goal. This
>> email is mainly a ‘last call’ for the local/US community to review what we
>> have outlined on the wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/
>> wiki/Denver_Planimetrics_Import before we send notice to the main
>> imports list.
>>
>>
>>
>> The other thing this email is, and why I’m cross-posting, is because we’d
>> love to have you come discuss the import and other OSM stuff at a Mappy
>> Hour tomorrow the 25th; details: https://www.meetup.com/OSM-Col
>> orado/events/237116910/
>>
>>
>>
>> Of course if you can’t make mappy hour please email me any comments,
>> thoughts, suggestions or advice; thank you!
>>
>> =Russ
>>
>>
>>
>> Russell Deffner
>>
>> russdeffner at gmail.com
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Imports-us mailing list
>> Imports-us at openstreetmap.org
>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports-us
>>
>>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/attachments/20170124/15b1ea53/attachment-0001.html>


More information about the Talk-us mailing list