My suggestion would be to amend and clean up the original import plan to
split out the country into regions and have a regional coordinator for
each region based on local input. I'd also add in the two other data
sources as alternative data sources.
The reason for this approach is an amended import plan might be more
acceptable to the import mailing list than new plans and in our smaller
regions there may not be the resources to put together a full import
plan for a thousand buildings.
Cheerio John
Nate Wessel wrote on 2019-09-28 1:37 PM:
I for one would be happy to support a local effort to import high
quality buildings in Toronto and/or the GTA. I think if we can
actually meet up face to face our discussions may remain a bit more
civil and productive. Hopefully consensus will be a bit easier to
achieve with smaller groups too!
I see that the OSM Toronto meetup
<https://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Toronto/> doesn't have any
upcoming events... Would others in the GTA be interested in planning a
meet up to talk about a local import plan? Is anyone on the list in
charge of organizing these?
Best,
Nate Wessel, PhD
Planner, Cartographer, Transport Nerd
NateWessel.com <http://www.natewessel.com>
On 2019-09-28 1:03 p.m., Jarek Piórkowski wrote:
Hi all,
To be a bit more positive:
If we want to get buildings on the map, but we can't get Canada-wide
data improved by Statcan to a standard acceptable to all mappers in
Canada, IMO the best bet will be to split this into much smaller
batches and support local mappers who would be interested in getting
the data in.
In my browsing of neis-one.org statistics for Canadian mappers and the
Notes active in Canada, I've seen active mappers and small communities
in at least Halifax, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, and Victoria
metros, and I might have missed some more. Many of them I have never
seen on the mailing list (which is a whole another issue), but
contacting them directly (via osm.org messages?), asking if they are
aware of other local mappers, if they would be interested in having
building data, if it is of acceptable standard to them, and if they
would be willing to help validate-and-upload the data (with help of
the central tooling) might get some success.
I hope that will go better than the previous attempt which could be
read - uncharitably - as a bunch of mailing list insiders throwing
federal data over the fence with little consultation.
It'll be a lot of work communicating and organizing. But getting
buildings is a lot of work, and if data producers can't do better,
whoever wants the buildings will have to do the work. Maybe with more
local support even the imports list will be more bearable.
Thanks,
--Jarek
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