Re: [Talk-us] Baltimore Building Outlines Import

2013-05-06 Thread Matthew Petroff
I have now reprocessed the building outlines using a method to simplify them while preserving their topology, an important consideration due to the large number of row houses in Baltimore. This has produced much better results than my previous simplification methods. After simplifying the data, the

Re: [Talk-us] Baltimore Building Outlines Import

2013-05-05 Thread Phil! Gold
* Matthew Petroff [2013-05-04 00:07 -0400]: > 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. My opinion on imports is that if manual intervention is th

Re: [Talk-us] Baltimore Building Outlines Import

2013-05-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
Matthew, On 05.05.2013 09:10, Matthew Petroff wrote: When run through the JOSM validator, there are no errors, but there are ~47k warning, mostly for "crossed buildings" and "building inside building," with a few "intersection between multipolygon ways," "self-intersecting ways," and "overlappin

Re: [Talk-us] Baltimore Building Outlines Import

2013-05-05 Thread Matthew Petroff
Thank you everyone for the suggestions. I had originally tried using QGIS's simplify function, but it simplified things far too much, even with the minimum tolerance, and I had given up on simplification. I tried ogr2ogr's simplify function due to the suggestion, and it worked much better. This re

Re: [Talk-us] Baltimore Building Outlines Import

2013-05-04 Thread Paul Norman
> 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

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, R

Re: [Talk-us] Baltimore Building Outlines Import

2013-05-04 Thread Richard Weait
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

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

[Talk-us] Baltimore Building Outlines Import

2013-05-03 Thread Matthew Petroff
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 already started importing this data in a less automated way. I confirmed w