Mike, not at all; I’m taking notes and in the coming weeks we’ll get stuff 
updated. The link to the DRCOG data is on the wiki, maybe you want to see the 
converted? Chad can correct me if I’m wrong, but at the moment the converted 
data is stored locally, maybe we can take a look if you do make it tonight. 
Otherwise I’ll follow-up with you soon.

=Russ

 

From: Mike Thompson [mailto:miketh...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 9:20 AM
To: Russell Deffner
Cc: Chad Hammond; Imports US
Subject: Re: [Imports-us] Denver Buildings Import Discussion

 

Russ, Chad,

 

Sorry if I jumped the gun.  I don't think I will be able to make it tonight, 
but if you provide a link to the original data I could do some work, provide 
some - hopefully helpful - feedback, and with your OK, help flush out the wiki 
page.

 

Again, it is great to see this moving forward!

 

Mike

 

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 9:49 PM, Russell Deffner <russdeff...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Mike and all,

 

First, I should have probably started with, the wiki still needs work and 
that’s part of what we’ll talk about tomorrow. I’m adding Chad here (and 
dropping talk-us), he can answer more specifics about what we’re doing with the 
data, but like the ‘other_tag’ we’re using that to further define the building 
type where we can.  You are correct, DRCOG tasked for imagery and digitization 
of that imagery so they are the owners of the data.

 

=Russ

 

From: Mike Thompson [mailto:miketh...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 6:41 PM
To: Russell Deffner
Cc: OSM US Talk; Imports US
Subject: Re: [Imports-us] OSM-Colorado Mappy Hour Denver Buildings Import 
Discussion

 

The data here:

http://gis.drcog.org/datacatalog/content/planimetrics-2014-building-roofprints

 

Doesn't seem to match the description on the wiki.  Perhaps it has already been 
converted partly to the OSM tagging (e.g. sheds and garages are separate)?

 

 

 

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 6:20 PM, Mike Thompson <miketh...@gmail.com> wrote:

Russ,

 

This is very exciting to see this coming along.  Let me know how I can help. 
Hopefully we can use its success to convince other government bodies in 
Colorado to allow us to import their data into OSM!  Here are a few comments.

 

re: "The Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG), in partnership with 
local governments and public entities, has purchased detailed infrastructure 
data..." - This makes it sound like they purchased a commercial dataset, which 
raises questions about licensing in my mind.  I suspect that what happened is 
they "contracted for the collection of detailed infrastructure data..." In 
other words, it was work for hire, and they own all rights to the data,. 
Therefore, as long as the right official within DRCOG signs off, we are good 
(no third party vendor has any ownership rights in the data and doesn't have to 
be consulted). If this is in fact the case, someone may wish to change the 
wording.

   

"Tagging Plans", "OTHER_TAG" - does this contain any useful information we can 
map to OSM tags?

   

re: "Building Roofprints (poly) - Stereo-compiled (3D)"  

* Where applicable, are the buildings in the source data orthogonal (square 
corners) - like we try to create in OSM?    

* re "multi-level commercial/industrial buildings" I presume this means a 
building that has multiple roof heights, not multiple levels/floors inside the 
building. For example a building that has one section that is two stories high 
and has a roof height of 20 feet, and another section that is three stories 
high and has a roof height of 30 feet.   

* re "multi-level commercial/industrial buildings" - consider relations to 
group the various building parts together. [1]

   

A "parking structure" should probably be tagged:

amenity=parking  

parking=multi-storey  [3]   

(not sure it should get a building tag)    

   

A "tank" should probably not be tagged as building=, but rather just 
man_made=storage_tank [2]

 

Not all "medical" buildings will be hospitals.   

 

Nothing is said about how the features other than buildings will be imported.   
 

 

Nothing is said about how the imported data will be conflated with the existing 
OSM data (I see there is a place holder).  

 

re "Merge Colorado Office of Information Technology (OIT) state address 
layer..." - does this data have a ODbL compatible license?  

 

Mike

   

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Simple_3D_buildings   

[2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dstorage_tank   

[3] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dparking

 

 

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Russell Deffner <russdeff...@gmail.com> wrote:

Greetings all, this is a cross-post :)

 

For some of you this may be old news/reminder.  Last spring the Denver Regional 
Council of Governments approached our local group, OSM-Colorado 
<https://www.meetup.com/OSM-Colorado/> , to discuss if and how a ton of 
planimetric data that they have collected and released as public domain could 
also be added to OpenStreetMap.  Since then we’ve been discussing with the 
local mappers and working together with DRCOG to prepare a pilot import for 
their building dataset and we’re very close to that goal. This email is mainly 
a ‘last call’ for the local/US community to review what we have outlined on the 
wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Denver_Planimetrics_Import before we 
send notice to the main imports list.

 

The other thing this email is, and why I’m cross-posting, is because we’d love 
to have you come discuss the import and other OSM stuff at a Mappy Hour 
tomorrow the 25th; details: 
https://www.meetup.com/OSM-Colorado/events/237116910/ 

 

Of course if you can’t make mappy hour please email me any comments, thoughts, 
suggestions or advice; thank you!

=Russ

 

Russell Deffner

russdeff...@gmail.com

 

 

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