[Talk-us] Talk-us Digest, Vol 129, Issue 35

[Jay Johnson]

Where were the buildings from?  I am in Raleigh and can help.

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>    1. Re: buggy buildings in Maryland (Ben Discoe)
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> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 17:38:52 -0700
> From: Ben Discoe <bdiscoe at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Talk-us] buggy buildings in Maryland
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> +1 to Elliot Plack's proposal to use Simplify to remove the redundant
> nodes from the poor quality imported buildings.
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> In fact, I did this myself for another massive import: User "jumbanho"
> imported buildings for the large city of Raleigh, NC back in January
> 2010.
> There were lots of degenerate nodes, which I cleaned up in batches
> using JOSM's simplify.  I did most of the cleanup in 2015.
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> -Ben
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 5:30 AM Elliott Plack <elliott.plack at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Here's a potential fix: use the SimplifyArea JOSM Plugin.
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/SimplifyArea
> >
> > The plugin is built for fixing over-noded and buggy imports.
> >
> > As a test, I downloaded the plugin and then downloaded some of Annapolis
> sailor's buildings.
> >
> > This building should only contain four nodes:
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/525751797
> >
> > This building should only contain eight nodes:
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/526209538
> >
> > The plugin successfully reduced the nodes for both buildings without
> affecting the shape, unlike the simplify way tool.
> >
> > I tested it on a larger swath of 500 buildings and it took less than a
> second to run.
> >
> > I haven't uploaded any of the changes yet, but I think this would be a
> good path forward.
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 8:02 PM Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On 08/16/2018 08:08 PM, Elliott Plack wrote:
> >> > I'd say go ahead and remove the extraneous nodes
> >>
> >> This has now been done.
> >>
> >> > and also any buildings
> >> > that are either version 0 or do not have any new tags (like names or
> >> > addresses)
> >>
> >> It appears that of the 177,151 buildings still there, only 29,513 have
> >> tags other than building=*. In most cases, these other tags are
> >> addr:street and addr:housenumber.
> >>
> >> I'll let this rest for a bit to give others a chance to chime in.
> >>
> >> Bye
> >> Frederik
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