Re: [talk-au] Microsoft Australian building footprints

2020-10-21 Thread Andrew Harvey
On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 15:35, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > Because of the simple way I split the files up, I've only got sporadic > coverage - a few buildings per street from my 10% sample. I'm not sure if > the original file is sorted by longitude/latitude in any way; or if the > model simply

Re: [talk-au] Microsoft Australian building footprints

2020-10-20 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 14:53, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > There's a link on the github repo to download a GeoJSON file. They haven't > made it available via rapid yet. > That would probably explain why I couldn't find it! Looking at it via JOSM, > & seeing that I don't JOSM, I won't worry to

Re: [talk-au] Microsoft Australian building footprints

2020-10-20 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
Where are you all finding this info? I've had a look at RapiD & they either don't have much on the GC, or I'm just doing something wrong (which is quite, quite possible! :-)), because I can't see anything to check? Thanks Graeme ___ Talk-au mailing

Re: [talk-au] Microsoft Australian building footprints

2020-10-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Looks like my other message didn't go through. Agree re the slight rotational issues; and it being at about the level of a new-intermediate contributor from the samples around Adelaide I managed to look at. I found sometimes, it would mistake bright concrete as part of a building footprint.

Re: [talk-au] Microsoft Australian building footprints

2020-10-20 Thread Andrew Harvey
Also buildings which are touching like a shop fronts are just one polygon, but I don't think you'd ever be able to do this too reliably without a survey anyway. Even if there is a small gap between buildings eg a garage and residence sometimes it will join them into a single polygon. What I feel

Re: [talk-au] Microsoft Australian building footprints

2020-10-20 Thread Andrew Harvey
On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 at 21:20, Simon Poole wrote: > Just as a comment: there is nothing so time consuming as fixing badly > mapped buildings (essentially drawing them from scratch is nearly always > faster), I would only import building outlines that are at a quality level > that you would not

Re: [talk-au] Microsoft Australian building footprints

2020-10-20 Thread Simon Poole
Just as a comment: there is nothing so time consuming as fixing badly mapped buildings (essentially drawing them from scratch is nearly always faster), I would only import building outlines that are at a quality level that you would not want to change them except if the building itself has

Re: [talk-au] Microsoft Australian building footprints

2020-10-20 Thread Andrew Harvey
On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 at 18:39, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > and after a bit of digging came across this ODBL data: > https://github.com/microsoft/AustraliaBuildingFootprints > > As fun as hand tracing data is; I'd be pretty keen to swap to small scale > imports of this, suburb by suburb in my area. >

Re: [talk-au] Microsoft Australian building footprints

2020-10-20 Thread Andrew Harvey
On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 at 18:39, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > Hi folks, > I was wondering how mapbox had coverage of areas that hadn't been traced > into OSM; and after a bit of digging came across this ODBL data: > https://github.com/microsoft/AustraliaBuildingFootprints > Not relevant to OSM here,

[talk-au] Microsoft Australian building footprints

2020-10-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Hi folks, I was wondering how mapbox had coverage of areas that hadn't been traced into OSM; and after a bit of digging came across this ODBL data: https://github.com/microsoft/AustraliaBuildingFootprints As fun as hand tracing data is; I'd be pretty keen to swap to small scale imports of this,