[Talk-us] New York building footprint mechanical edit - launched with wrong user name

[Kevin Kenny]

This is just an informative message that when I launched the edit today, I
inadvertently started it with an OAuth token corresponding to my own user
ID (ke9tv) rather than the dedicated import user ke9tv_NYbuildings_repair,
and the edit ran for several hours importing as me rather than the import
user.

The import changesets are still readily distinguishable by the log messages
(which begins 'ke9tv NYbuildings repair'), the `description` tag (which
contains a link to
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_edits/ke9tv_NYbuildings_repair)
and the `source` tag (which contains the constant `select_changesets.tcl
build-35-gc2f981f https://github.com/kennykb/NYbuildings_repair`,
identifying the script, version, and repository).

I earnestly hope that this goof will not cause too much confusion moving
forward.

The good news is that I show just over 59,000 corrupted address points
after today's runs, down from over 130,000, so it won't be too long before
the defective import is mostly corrected.

Kevin

On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 4:47 PM Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 4:36 PM Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 8:17 PM Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 11:21 PM Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> (See a more detailed project plan, including scripts developed and used
>>>> so far,
>>>> at https://github.com/kennykb/NYbuildings_repair)
>>>>
>>>> In the last week or so, I've discovered a somewhat distressing fact
>>>> about building footprints in New York State. Well over 100,000 of them were
>>>> created by OSM users 'NYbuildings' and 'AlexCleary', both of which are
>>>> identified as pseudonyms for 'mileuthi'. The process appears to have been
>>>> that they were transcribed from Microsoft's AI-generated building
>>>> footprints, obtainable from
>>>> https://cugir.library.cornell.edu/?f%5Bcugir_category_sm%5D%5B%5D=structure,
>>>> together with the Street and Address Map data developed for the E911 system
>>>> and obtainable from
>>>> https://gis.ny.gov/gisdata/inventories/details.cfm?DSID=921.
>>>>
>>>
>>> The fix-bot for this problem is getting close to be ready to roll.
>>>
>>> I've created a project page at
>>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mechanical_edits/ke9tv_NYbuildings_repair
>>> ,
>>> and uploaded a bunch of randomly-selected changesets that the bot would
>>> apply into
>>> https://github.com/kennykb/NYbuildings_repair/tree/main/sample_changesets
>>> .
>>>
>>> Consider this message to be a first request for peer review. If I don't
>>> hear any shouts of "NO!!!!" in the next week or so, I'll upload a few
>>> changesets, and post links to them here so that the end product can be
>>> reviewed.
>>>
>>
>> Don't say I didn't warn you.  I've uploaded ten changesets after
>> carefully hand-scrubbing them.  The only potential issue that I found was
>> that two housenumbers appeared possibly to have been transposed. Since the
>> two establishments share a common, named, service way, it's entirely
>> possible that their house numbers run out of sequence with respect to the
>> main highway, which appears in the postal address, so this is not a
>> definite error.
>>
>> I spotted a couple of misspelt street names in OSM that had arrived from
>> the TIGER import. Clearly a fix to building addresses won't change these.
>> I also spotted a block of `addr:place=*` tags that are both incorrect
>> (the houses in question are not in the named village) and out of keeping
>> with US practice.  Since the mechanical edit does nothing with
>> `addr:place=*`, I didn't consider that to be a problem with the edit.  I
>> can fix these separately under my own user name rather than under the
>> mechanical edit account.
>>
>> Descriptions of the changesets appear as an update at the bottom of the
>> GitHub project page at https://github.com/kennykb/NYbuildings_repair.
>> You can also see them under the mechanical edit user
>> 'ke9tv_NYbuildings_repair'
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ke9tv_NYbuildings_repair/history .
>>
>> I'll put the project on hold for another week or so, and if I don't hear
>> anything adverse here or in changeset comments, I'll start moving forward
>> with the rest of the repair.
>>
>
> I'll extend the pause an additional week (until April 9 or so) to allow
> potential reviewers time to get back from SOTM-US.
>
>
>
> --
> 73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin
>


-- 
73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin
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