On Jan 26, 2019, at 12:37 PM, john whelan wrote:
A history of building data released by Stats Can and how these were entered
into OSM via an Ottawa pilot project, with some success and some lessons
learned. Good for OSM!
> The other complicating factor here is a lot of people are very
Bringing building outline Open Data into OSM has taken some years. The
first problem to overcome was knowledge of OpenStreetMap by various levels
of government. An early contact with the City of Ottawa was made by two
students aged around twelve who used OpenStreetMap to build an Open Data
App
As I said before, I'd like to hear about specific problems that need to be
fixed, For instance, the issues Nate raised before about large retail
buildings and buildings in buildings were helpful to know about, and I
believe I have fixed those issues in the areas I imported. I have also
done
Hi there to all,
Really interested in this thread as we are precisely a community in contact
with National Statistics Offices (NSOs) like Stat Can and we see a growing
interest in OSM's geodatabase.
I can tell the interest will remain in the coming years and we need to be
prepared. As NSOs are
I'm changing the Subject to delete "Stats Can" as this is an import into OSM,
not a Stats Can import. True, they published the data, so "thanks for the
data," but Stats Can isn't a part of this conversation, they merely published
the data. I say it like this to emphasize that OSM is quite
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