Thanks for the input. Looking all that info over it seemed appropriate for me to go forward with a small test import, so I have done so.
While many of the buildings are quite roughly traced, this is similar to many areas of Vancouver, and I believe that it is a big improvement. Here is the changeset: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/52634089 I've since gone over the area, and cleaned up some of the building traces, and added some missing garages. I hope that looks good to everyone, and if there are no issues I will continue to import bits of the CoV footprint data, in small chunks (similar to the one I've already done). I will be closely reviewing the data before import, and ensuring it is free from duplicates, and that it correlates reasonably well with the imagery. Thanks All, Keith (keithonearth) On 3 October 2017 at 10:44, Alan Richards <alarob...@gmail.com> wrote: > There is some information on the wiki here. https://wiki. > openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:British_Columbia:Vancouver# > GIS_sources_by_city. Special permission was obtained from the city for > certain datasets only. > > On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 6:09 AM, john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I understand Paul Norman arranged for something for the city of >> Vancouver Open Data so the data might be imported into OSM. This is >> independent of the normal licensing route. >> >> Cheerio John >> >> On 2 October 2017 at 14:15, 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 >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-ca mailing list >> Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >> >> >
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