[Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 2013-05-02

2013-05-04 Thread Dave Hansen
These are based off of Lambertus's work here: http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl If you have questions or comments about these maps, please feel free to ask. However, please do not send me private mail. The odds are, someone else will have the same questions, and by asking on the talk-us@

Re: [Talk-us] Baltimore Building Outlines Import

2013-05-04 Thread Alex Barth
Matthew - Awesome you're working on this. My only qualm with the data is that some buildings have more nodes than they need, but I'm not sure what can be done about it besides manually reviewing and simplifying all 200k+ outlines. ogr2ogr -simplify ? I assigned approximate street addresses

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports-us] Baltimore Building Outlines Import

2013-05-04 Thread Clifford Snow
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Matthew Petroff openstreet...@mpetroff.netwrote: Using QGIS, I assigned approximate street addresses to each building using a parcel map [3] and used the field calculator to clean up the labels and remove abbreviations. In addition, I removed all data that

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports-us] Baltimore Building Outlines Import

2013-05-04 Thread Elliott Plack
Matthew emailed me last night about this, and I'm excited to see him take over. I hadn't thought to pull the addresses from the parcel network. I can also confirm the data is public domain. I work closely with the city GIS team in my work at Baltimore County. Matthew: since your doing

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports-us] Baltimore Building Outlines Import

2013-05-04 Thread Paul Norman
Thanks for the proposal, I have a few comments From: Matthew Petroff [mailto:openstreet...@mpetroff.net] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 9:03 PM Subject: [Imports-us] Baltimore Building Outlines Import Using QGIS, I assigned approximate street addresses to each building using a parcel map [3]

Re: [Talk-us] Baltimore Building Outlines Import

2013-05-04 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Matthew Petroff openstreet...@mpetroff.net wrote: Hello, The City of Baltimore provides a large amount of public domain GIS data through their data portal [1]. Included are city wide building footprints [2], which I would like to import into OpenStreetMap.

Re: [Talk-us] Baltimore Building Outlines Import

2013-05-04 Thread Jason Remillard
Hi, If you carefully read the original mail, you will see two download links. Both of those links it says the data is public domain I don't think the the web site terms of use apply. The data can't both be in the public domain and have a license. Thanks Jason. On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 10:41 PM,