Re: [Talk-us] Available Building Footprints

> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 11:30 AM, Kevin Kenny > wrote: > As long as the Wiki page is merely identifying this as a potential project > that someone might sign up for someday, thatś fine. As it > stands, it is incoherent as a project proposal. > > Kevin, > The wiki

Re: [Talk-us] Available Building Footprints Date: March 28, 2017 at 2:06:33 AM PDT

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 10:43 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > This is where I have violently disagreed with Denis and his team in the > past and still do; in my eyes, the *hard* work starts once the data has > been prepared and converted and set up, because *then* I want people >

[Talk-us] Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] Research Scientist position at WMF

Forwarding in case there are statisticians or scientists in OSM that would be interested in this job posting. Pine -- Forwarded message -- Hi all, The Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation has just opened a full-time research scientist position

Re: [Talk-us] Available Building Footprints

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 11:30 AM, Kevin Kenny wrote: > As long as the Wiki page is merely identifying this as a potential > project that someone might sign up for someday, thatś fine. As it > stands, it is incoherent as a project proposal. > Kevin, The wiki page was

Re: [Talk-us] Available Building Footprints

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 1:46 PM, Nathan Mixter wrote: > Denis was right on with his response, and those are the type or responses > that we need if ... and I do say if ... this project is to move forward. > There are several hurdles in using this data, one being the size and

Re: [Talk-us] Available Building Footprints Date: March 28, 2017 at 2:06:33 AM PDT

Hi, On 03/28/2017 05:48 PM, Denis Carriere wrote: > Instead of having tons of different people trying to attempt loading all > of these 8 Million buildings, [...] > After all the "hard work" is done.. you can simply add those > small chunks of data with JOSM using any Tasking Manager This is

Re: [Talk-us] Available Building Footprints

Nathan, On 03/28/2017 11:06 AM, Nathan Mixter wrote: > California has more than triple the amount of data available than any > other state. Importing it will be no small task but doing it in chunks > by several people will make it manageable. I know that singling you out borders on the impolite

[Talk-us] Building Footprints in CA

Hi All -     I have been working with 2D building footprints from LA and other counties here in Berkeley on a research project, using a PostGIS/GDAL stack and a libosimum tool, among others..  The project is broadly named  "California OpenData ECN" .. I am committed to an open data process. Not

Re: [Talk-us] Available Building Footprints

Steve, I'm not sure how or why you are jumping to the conclusion that because a wiki page was created that somehow means the import has already occurred. Your impulsive reaction and rants are unwarranted and unappreciated. No one has said anything about importing other than raising the

Re: [Talk-us] Available Building Footprints

I couldn't agree more, Denis. The only thing that this (poorly named/indexed in OSM's wiki) "Available Building Footprints" page mentions about importing is "Any import of these building footprints must strictly follow the import guidelines." Well, then, please do so! I'm not saying that

Re: [Talk-us] Available Building Footprints Date: March 28, 2017 at 2:06:33 AM PDT

Instead of having tons of different people trying to attempt loading all of these 8 Million buildings, we shoul collectively start an import proposal (OSM wiki, draft a plan, set up tasking managers, pre-process data, host entire dataset, etc...). The best/easiest solution we (OSM Ottawa) did for

Re: [Talk-us] Available Building Footprints Date: March 28, 2017 at 2:06:33 AM PDT

Hi Nathan: I've got pretty beefy hardware, but the "Bay Area" shapefile pointed to by your recent post chokes my JOSM to a gasping strangle: >3.7 million objects?! These need to be broken up further to smaller files, to either the county level or even smaller to a sub-county level, in a sane

Re: [Talk-us] Available Building Footprints

California has more than triple the amount of data available than any other state. Importing it will be no small task but doing it in chunks by several people will make it manageable. The buildings in the Bay Area alone in the file stretch from Clear Lake way down to Hollister and run along the