[Talk-us] Data team mapping buildings in Fort Worth and Dallas

[Simon Poole]

Andrew, could you perhaps weigh in on
https://github.com/osmlab/editor-layer-index/issues/281 ? It seems to be
rather silly to not be showing the best imagery as default in the
editors (as I suspect we are doing for Texas).

Thanks

Simon


On 25.05.2017 18:10, Andrew Matheny wrote:
> Jinal-
>
> I would recommend using the Texas Orthophoto imagery for this area.
>
> Back when I was importing the Building footprints for Dallas, I
> noticed the Bing imagery in the Dallas-Fort Worth area is at least 5
> years old.
>
> The Texas Orthophoto imagery is flown every year and I believe what
> shows now is from January 2017.
>
> Also, for what its worth, I believe the City of Fort Worth has
> building footprints that could be imported, but we just need to get
> the explicit permission.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Andrew Matheny
>
> On Thursday, May 25, 2017, Jinal Foflia <fofliajinal at gmail.com
> <mailto:fofliajinal at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > This is Jinal Foflia and I work with the Mapbox's Data team [0]. Our
> > team is planning to work on improving the building footprints in
> Fort Worth and Dallas [1] on OpenStreetMap. You can track the progress
> in our /mapping ticket [2]. Let us know if you have any feedback,
> please post in this thread or in the ticket. 
> >
> > [0] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapbox#Mapbox_Data_Team
> > [1] http://tasks.openstreetmap.us/project/95
> > [2] https://github.com/mapbox/mapping/issues/297
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Jinal Foflia
>
>
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