Re: [talk-au] Microsoft Australian building footprints

[Simon Poole]

Just as a comment: there is nothing so time consuming as fixing badly mapped buildings (essentially drawing them from scratch is nearly always faster), I would only import building outlines that are at a quality level that you would not want to change them except if the building itself has been modified.

Simon



Am 20.10.2020 um 11:12 schrieb Andrew Harvey:

PS: lives in an area which had 10s of 1000s of buildings mapped already in 2009 from mushy misaligned yahoo imagery.

On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 at 18:39, Daniel O'Connor <daniel.ocon...@gmail.com <mailto:daniel.ocon...@gmail.com>> wrote:

    and after a bit of digging came across this ODBL data:
    https://github.com/microsoft/AustraliaBuildingFootprints
    <https://github.com/microsoft/AustraliaBuildingFootprints>

    As fun as hand tracing data is; I'd be pretty keen to swap to
    small scale imports of this, suburb by suburb in my area.

    https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Microsoft_Building_Footprint_Data
    <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Microsoft_Building_Footprint_Data>
    details the data in more general terms, and links to a few import
    proposals.

    Anyone feel like exploring and validating the quality of the data
    in their areas?






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Thanks for posting, I didn't realise they had released something for Australia. It says "The data will also be made available in Facebook RapiD." but I couldn't see buildings come through only roads. RapiD would probably be one of the easier options for bringing into OSM. Areas which are already well mapped building wise best to leave what's there, and area where people are actively mapping with local knowledge and survey's best to leave what's there, but for general areas with almost no buildings mapped, I think it makes sense to manually import this to provide a good base level of coverage.

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