[Talk-ca] hebdoOSM Nº 491 2019-12-10-2019-12-16

2019-12-24 Thread theweekly . osm
Bonjour, Le résumé hebdomadaire n° 491 de l'actualité OpenStreetMap vient de paraître *en français*. Un condensé à retrouver sur : http://www.weeklyosm.eu/fr/archives/12659/ Bonne lecture ! Saviez-vous que vous pouvez vous aussi soumettre des messages pour la note hebdomadaire sans être

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2019-12-24 Thread John Whelan
I think the first problem to be addressed is the presence or absence of a local community. In the north we have few mappers but lots of interested agencies and people in seeing the buildings imported. Montreal I think is under control.  Toronto is in the process of sorting itself out but

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2019-12-24 Thread Daniel @jfd553
Hi Group! I am currently working on a proposal which, I hope, will bring consensus among the community and relaunch the import of ODB footprints (StatCan). The proposal should be ready in a few weeks, or sooner. In the meantime, I suggest to all those who are interested to take note of the

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2019-12-24 Thread Nate Wessel
Hi Daniel, Thanks for taking the time to put together these detailed observations on the data. It seems like it could be a useful guide, though I have some questions about how you came to these measurements and what they mean. I'll leave those clarifying questions for the talk page however.

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2019-12-24 Thread James
wasn't there talk about this before and someone blocked it because of non-square buildings and the resulting discussion was that each community was going to decide if they want to import or not? On Tue., Dec. 24, 2019, 1:26 p.m. Daniel @jfd553, wrote: > Hi Group! > > I am currently working on a

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2019-12-24 Thread Daniel @jfd553
I'll get back to you in a couple of days:-) Sent from Galaxy S7 From: John Whelan Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2019 6:21:06 PM To: Daniel @jfd553 Cc: James ; Talk-CA OpenStreetMap Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada So an approach would be to

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2019-12-24 Thread Adam Martin
Hi all, Looking at the wiki page, a large volume of the buildings are of low quality requiring processing. The trade off here is between not having buildings and having buildings that are out of place and of poor quality. I can see people being reluctant to have it imported in an area,

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2019-12-24 Thread john whelan
There are some areas of reasonable quality where buildings are missing. These I think can be imported on the technical side without too much difficulty and those were the ones I cherry picked as low hanging fruit that should not be contentious. Having said that I have seen the view expressed it

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2019-12-24 Thread Daniel @jfd553
Have a look at the wiki page I referred to. Further discussions will be more easy and focused Sent from Galaxy S7 From: John Whelan Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2019 2:50:29 PM To: James Cc: Daniel @jfd553 ; Talk-CA OpenStreetMap Subject: Re: [Talk-ca]

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2019-12-24 Thread John Whelan
So an approach would be to pick off those areas with good data available first with few existing buildings mapped? Such as Victoria or Courtenay in BC Burlington, Caledon, Barrie in Ontario Then move forward based on that experience? I'd feel more comfortable with a mapper from the province