> From: Jason Remillard [mailto:remillard.ja...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2013 8:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Baltimore Building Outlines Import
>
> Hi,
>
> If you carefully read the original mail, you will see two download
> links. Both of those links it says the data is public doma
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, R
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Matthew Petroff 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. Other users have alr
Hi Matthew,
The import proposal looks good! I downloaded the tar file and looked
at the first OSM file.
- There are some duplicate buildings. They were probably added while
you have been processing the data. You may want to proceed anyway and
fix them after if it will be a lot of work redoing the
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
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 address
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Matthew Petroff
wrote:
>
> 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 intersected with
> exis
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
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@ l
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