Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Importing Buildings and Addresses for Austin, Texas

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Andy Wilson wrote: > 3. Efficiency. There are enough buildings in OSM already and as Martin > pointed out, comparing them individually and properly merging tags, etc > would be time consuming. JOSM has a "Replace Geometry" tool found

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Importing Buildings and Addresses for Austin, Texas

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 12:59 PM Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > > sent from a phone > > > Am 09.11.2015 um 18:07 schrieb Eric Ladner : > > > > Replacing existing hand drawn buildings with imports from the city's GIS > system would probably be

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Importing Buildings and Addresses for Austin, Texas

I'll second Paul's bit rot on unique ID's comments. They're all well and good until somebody upgrades their GIS system, then all those unique ID's get flushed down the drain. And actually doing a conflation with hundreds of thousands of buildings which may or may not have the ID's preserved