[Talk-us] MS Buildings (Re: Talk-us Digest, Vol 112, Issue 25)

[maning sambale]

Hi,

My colleague Chethan played around with visualizing MS buildings in 3D:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Chetan_Gowda/diary/41705

Webmap here: https://osmlab.github.io/ms-building-import/#15.72/39.2862/-76.6135/-1.2/60

The quality is generally good, but there are spots where small
buildings are not  orthogonal like these residential areas in Orlando

https://osmlab.github.io/ms-building-import/#18.4/28.45983/-81.38851/53/27
https://osmlab.github.io/ms-building-import/#17.36/28.50154/-81.49417/33.8/27

Obviously, this shouldn't be imported wholesale, so I suggest to
whoever plans to do import/conflate them should review the quality of
each data.


> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 09:37:15 -0700
> From: Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us>
> To: talk-us <talk-us at openstreetmap.org>
> Subject: [Talk-us] Available Building Footprints
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> I am happy to announce that Microsoft has made available approximately 9.8
> million building footprints including building heights in key metropolitan
> areas. These footprints are licensed ODbL to allow importing into OSM.
> These footprints where manually created using high resolution imagery. The
> data contains no funny field names such as tiger:cfcc or gnis:featureid or
> fcode=46003, just building height.
>
>
> Please remember to follow the import guidelines.
>
> The wiki [1] has more information on these footprints as well as links to
> download.
>
> [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/dieterdreist/diary/40727
>
> Enjoy,
> Clifford Snow
>
>
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cheers,
maning
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