I'm not sure if Paul has imported data for Vancouver before or not. But before you import, you need to document on the wiki. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:British_Columbia:Vancouver#Imports would be a good place to start looking what people have done in the past
On Oct 2, 2017 10:57 PM, "keith" <keithis...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Canada list, > > I am interested in using some of the data provided by the City of > Vancouver under the "Open Government Licence – Vancouver" ( > http://vancouver.ca/your-government/open-data-catalogue.aspx#tab19099). > According to the OSM wiki this is compatible with OSM's licence ( > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors#Vancouver), is this > accurate? > > I want to do small imports of building traces, manually checking the > imagery against the Imagery. I guess this should still be considered to > finish off the section of Vancouver that does not have the buildings > traced. The quality of the data from the City of Vancouver is OK, not > amazing, in fact slightly lower than the average for Vancouver building > traces, but not outside the range. It would be trivial to improve the > traces to be better than average, and I would do so for what I import. It's > for a relatively small area, about 2km by 4.5km, and I would be doing lots > of manual fixes and inspection. So many that I'm not really sure that it's > exactly an import. > > If the building traces goes smoothly, and has general acceptance, I might > use other data from the listed datasets. > > What do the folks on this list say? Am I good to go ahead with this? > > Thanks for any input. > > Keith > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > >
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