And...you're off and running (better and better). This is a process, everybody. Nobody wants to be slapping anybody around. I like the way we've been polite and patient with each other here.
Regards, SteveA > On Jan 28, 2018, at 4:47 PM, Matthew Darwin <matt...@mdarwin.ca> wrote: > > Inline > On 2018-01-28 07:38 PM, john whelan wrote: >> We have lots of people talking about this. > > Yay! > >> We have a wiki page somewhere that covers some ground. Could someone remind >> me of the address? > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada/Building_Canada_2020 > > needs lots of improvements. I started. I see Steve A did a bunch as well. > >> >> Do we have anyone willing to project manage this? It is a very big project >> with lots of aspects and complications to it. > > I have not heard of any. I am willing to help some, but it really needs to be > a full-time person (or bunch of people to make it to full time). > >> >> Do we have a list of attributes that should be added to buildings? If they >> aren't on the wiki then I think they should be. > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada/Building_Canada_2020#The_data_being_mapped > > Although I think the list is impractical... how to get all the attributes > listed? > >> I am aware of public wif, levels, use ie commercial, residential. There >> are some tiles set up somewhere for mapping and validation. >> >> Could we have a pointer to them please if they aren't on the wiki already. >> >> We have interest from schools and universities do we have any material that >> could be used for them? >> >> Do we have a "hello to help with this project please use Bing imagery with >> JOSM building_tool plugin on the following tiles. If you use iD please be >> very careful and map the building outlines exactly." >> >> and "this is how you add a tag?" >> > Needs to be added. The folks doing Ottawa buildings recently probably have > the best experiences to provide guidence to newbies. Also probably should be > a template for the tasking manager to point at. (For all the building > related tasks). > > If the Ottawa/Gatineau experience teaches us anything, I suspect that doing > buildings is going to be a multi-step process per > municipality/region/province. Import stuff, manually map stuff, add more > tags, whatever... ie going from zero buildings to "perfect" buildings in one > shot is not reasonable. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
