I've found a good resource to use is a business website. Particularly a store
with multiple locations, a mall directory, or a BIA. They have several postal
codes that are associated with their respective addresses.
Unfortunately it does require manual work (or you could pair a scrapper with a
The pilot project that took place in Ottawa for all these building imports is
what got me hooked into OSM in the first place. I would make only very minor
changes here and there. I even attempted to draw building footprints but got
burnt out after only doing a single street, which was very
After some data analysis (cheers Denis) we've found about 200 trees that are
conflicting with buildings. These will obviously need to be handled manually
which should be an easy task for the local mappers.
The wiki page has been updated accordingly.
Hopefully we've resolved most of the issues
A friendly hello to everyone,
With the recent approval of the Ottawa ODL, I've had a keen eye on the City of
Ottawa tree dataset after seeing a project showing all the fruit-bearing trees
in the city.
http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset/tree-inventory-street-trees
The dataset provided has all the
From what I've seen, the address interpolations are very inaccurate. The ends
are not position properly, sometimes there will be odd numbers on an even way
(and vise versa), sometimes the addresses are backwards, sometimes on the wrong
side of the street, sometimes both.
'Okay' data is better
It seems like with direct permission for the building footprint data the
licencing issue becomes irrelevant.
However, determining the compatibility of the license is still important so we
can avoid having these types of discussions for all the other bits of data the
city provides. But this one
