Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

2016-10-25 Thread Kevin Farrugia
Hi Christoph, Sorry, after I sent my email I noticed I wasn't in the imports mailing list. Planimetrics represent whatever the ground condition was when the data was created and updated, which is almost always done with high res orthoimagery. If someone demolishes a shed in their backyard, the

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

2016-10-25 Thread Kevin Farrugia
Generally the planimetric CAD drawings (what Stewart posted) are/were the source for most municipal building footprints, from what I've seen in my experience. In some cases the footprints are still maintained in that format and exported out for GIS, while in other cases they're now exclusively

Re: [Talk-ca] [Imports] [Import] Ottawa Buildings & Addresses [Statistics Canada project]

2016-10-25 Thread James
There is also a factual basis in the example Scruss provided: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:12.PNG TD Place(Renovated/New buildings constructed in Summer 2014) is not mapped in the DWG(scruss said as far back as 2011) In the newer data it is: