[Talk-us] [Imports] Fort Worth, Texas import

Andrew Matheny andrewdmatheny at gmail.com
Thu Jun 22 16:45:36 UTC 2017


Daniel-

Thanks for the heads up!

It looks like their footprints cover an area of the city that I've already
imported, but the height data would certainly be useful. I think it would
make sense to add this in to the import project.

Thanks!

Andrew Matheny

On Jun 21, 2017 11:56 PM, "Daniel O'Connor" <daniel.oconnor at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
> With https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Microsoft_Building_Footprint_Data
> also becoming available recently; any thoughts on (perhaps a separate
> project?) cross checking that against whats available in OSM in addition to
> the import here?
>
> Texas Lubbock, Longview,* part of Fort Worth*, Austin, downtown Houston,
> and Corpus Christi
>
> 236,466 buildings available
>
> On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 3:39 AM, <joe.sapletal at charter.net> wrote:
>
>> Andrew,
>>
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>> Looks good to me and a great follow up to the Dallas project.  I would
>> suggest contacting the project lead for project 95, they appear to work at
>> mapbox.  I contacted the mapbox user that created a digitizing project that
>> overlapped my import project and they changed the status on the
>> intersecting tiles to done.  This is keeping people from digitizing when
>> they could be importing higher quality data.
>>
>>
>>
>> Joe
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>> *From: *Andrew Matheny <andrewdmatheny at gmail.com>
>> *Sent: *Friday, May 26, 2017 4:57 PM
>> *To: *OpenStreetMap talk-us list <talk-us at openstreetmap.org>;
>> imports at openstreetmap.org
>> *Subject: *[Imports] Fort Worth, Texas import
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello all-
>>
>>
>>
>> With the Dallas building import completed except for 1 or 2 residential
>> blocks, I've begun planning a building import for Fort Worth, the next
>> largest city in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
>>
>>
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>> The permissions, process, and test results have been documented on the
>> Wiki here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Fort_Worth,_Texas_import .
>>
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>> There have also been some recent initiatives by the community (see
>> http://tasks.openstreetmap.us/project/95 ) to trace buildings, and so
>> I'd like to accelerate this import project and have the community help
>> double check the imported data. This will help save the community's time
>> from having to start with a blank slate vs. being a pair of fresh eyes that
>> can make the data really, really good.
>>
>>
>>
>> As always, any feedback would be much appreciated.
>>
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>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
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>>
>> Andrew Matheny
>>
>> andrewdmatheny at gmail.com
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