[Talk-us] Morris County, New Jersey Building Import

[Jacob Jordan]

Hi Mike,
I would be happy to import those as well, I'm not so technically talented
with other scripts but most towns have little mapped and are relatively
straightforward to handle duplicates in. I think buildings will be the
focus of the import however, but it would be nice to replace the address
interpolation with some real addresses. If there aren't too many concerns I
can follow up with some documentation, and move forward into importing in
the coming weeks.

Since I think I didn't address this specifically in the first message- the
data quality varies wildly from town to town, and is especially bad in
certain wooded areas, which is part of the reason that I want to map it a
bit slowly. I'm worried that too much automation or carelessness would let
in bad data.

Thank you,
Jacob


On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 7:07 AM Mike N wrote:

> Hi Jacob,
>
>    This sounds like a great project - consider also bringing in
> addresses at the same time.   It's more work but if you're comfortable
> with JOSM and ArcGIS, they can help with removing duplicates of both
> addresses and buildings.   There are some other external scripts that
> people have used, but I don't know which are the best.
>
>    Mike
>
> On 12/12/2021 5:00 PM, Jacob Jordan wrote:
> > Hello, I'm Jacob, safetygoggles on OSM. I'm from Morris County in New
> > Jersey
> > (https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2560069#map=11/40.8712/-74.5004
> > <https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2560069#map=11/40.8712/-74.5004>)
> and
> > I have already mapped building footprints for several towns there from
> > aerial imagery but am looking to make progress a bit faster. This summer
> > I talked to Morris County GIS and obtained permission to use their GIS
> > data for OpenStreetmap, with a disclaimer that I'll post in the
> > appropriate page later on in the process, which can be found here:
> > http://morrisgisapps.co.morris.nj.us/gisdata.html
> > <http://morrisgisapps.co.morris.nj.us/gisdata.html>
> >
> > I've combed through a bit of the data already- it isn't the best, and
> > somewhere in the process I will need to delete duplicates (I will delete
> > from the Morris County data) and remove areas erroneously marked as
> > buildings. I plan to cut the data into segments using ArcGIS and work on
> > towns individually, since some of them have data that frankly can't be
> > brought up to standard. However, having done some testing offline in
> > JOSM, there are areas of fairly good data and I was able to create a
> > decent dataset for the town of Boonton in just about an hour, for
> > example. If this goes forward I plan to use JOSM to comb through every
> > town's data before uploading, so it will not be complete nor will it be
> > done all too quickly.
> >
> > Let me know any problems or concerns I should consider, I have never
> > been involved in such a process before so I would like to go slowly and
> > carefully as possible- however having written before to individual
> > mappers in the region there seemed to be general excitement to move this
> > forward. My wiki page is
> > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Safetygoggles
> > <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Safetygoggles>.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Jacob
> >
> > P.S. I've already posted this on the imports mailing list, so I'm sorry
> > if it creates duplicates, it should be the same message.
> >
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