Re: [Talk-us] Addition of building footprints in selected U.S. and Canadian cities

2012-04-02 Thread William Morris
So here's something to mull over while we all wait for the license upgrade: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23616645/Geosprocket_Share/umd_subset.osm That's an extract of the UVM-SAL building footprints I'd like to import for swathes of MD and PA. My workflow for killing existing feature conflicts

Re: [Talk-us] Addition of building footprints in selected U.S. and Canadian cities

2012-04-02 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:46 AM, William Morris wboyk...@geosprocket.com wrote: So here's something to mull over while we all wait for the license upgrade: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23616645/Geosprocket_Share/umd_subset.osm That's an extract of the UVM-SAL building footprints I'd like to

Re: [Talk-us] Addition of building footprints in selected U.S. and Canadian cities

2012-04-02 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 4/2/2012 12:18 PM, Richard Weait wrote: I think imports (taking a large number of objects from an external source and placing them in OSM all at once) is bad for the community. Most of you have heard me say this before. I still have no hard evidence to prove it. There is also no hard

Re: [Talk-us] Addition of building footprints in selected U.S. and Canadian cities

2012-04-02 Thread Nathan Mills
On 4/2/2012 12:06 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: I offer TIGER as counterevidence. It's imperfect but a great starting point for local mappers, especially those without a GPS setup. This is definitely true for those of us in areas with few mappers. OSM would be largely useless here without the

Re: [Talk-us] Addition of building footprints in selected U.S. and Canadian cities

2012-04-02 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Nathan Mills nat...@nwacg.net wrote: On 4/2/2012 12:06 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: I offer TIGER as counterevidence. It's imperfect but a great starting point for local mappers, especially those without a GPS setup. This is definitely true for those of us in

Re: [Talk-us] Addition of building footprints in selected U.S. and Canadian cities

2012-04-02 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Nathan Mills nat...@nwacg.net wrote: On 4/2/2012 12:06 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: I offer TIGER as counterevidence. It's imperfect but a great starting point for local mappers,

Re: [Talk-us] Addition of building footprints in selected U.S. and Canadian cities

2012-04-02 Thread the Old Topo Depot
Hi Bill, This location ( http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=41.29693lon=-75.87369zoom=17layers=M) has a number of hand editing building outlines. If the data you're looking at is reasonably close in quality to this area then I think we should discuss going ahead with the addition of your