[Talk-us] Proposed mechanical edit - New York building footprints

[Kevin Kenny]

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.

-- 
73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin
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