[Imports] Help us address issues with the NYC Import

2013-10-14 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Hi all, As Alex mentioned, we had a test of our import this weekend. The event went great, with 22 people coming to help import. Before the event began, Alex gave a great walkthrough. In addition, we had written instructions on the tasking manager: http://tasks.openstreetmap.us/job/2 And I mad

Re: [Imports] Help us address issues with the NYC Import

2013-10-14 Thread Pieren
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Serge Wroclawski wrote: > Yet, despite all this instruction, we had a lot of errors in the data, > even from extremely experienced mappers. > We could really use your help in coming up with solutions to these problems! We have the same issues in the French buildi

Re: [Imports] Help us address issues with the NYC Import

2013-10-14 Thread Alex Barth
Ok, here's what I think we should do: 1. Join T intersections in conversion (Matt and I are on this) https://github.com/osmlab/nycbuildings/issues/8 2. Set up a QA script reporting common mistakes (start here https://github.com/osmlab/nycbuildings/issues/18) 3. Write up nice blog post highlighting

Re: [Imports] Help us address issues with the NYC Import

2013-10-14 Thread Jason Remillard
Hi Problems 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 9 should have been fixed before the first file was uploaded. OSM files that are going to be imported, should 100% clean in the JOSM validator. This is a pretty basic thing, right? 7 - Building that already exist in OSM should be skipped, especially since it looks li