On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Brian H Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
> So Paul and Toby know what it's like in Corvallis! (>1 = community here) I > am a nerd not a "community builder" but I am trying anyway because I can't > do it all alone. I prefer Python and PostGIS but having human help will be > good too. > We partnered with members of Cascadia Users of Geospatial Open Source (CUGOS.org ) as well as our Meetup.com group. CUGOS is mostly nerds! You might look for similar groups in Corvallis. Jeff Meyer did some presentations about what we were trying to accomplish and asked for help. > > Yesterday I spent a few minutes trying to find good examples of building > footprint and addresses and did not find anything. Do you have a > recommendation of a geographic area that actually looks good already? > Did you look at Seattle? We are slowing filling in the city. The downtown area is mostly older tracings that will be manually converted. Replacing older hand drawn buildings is a slow process. You first have to check that the existing building isn't newer than the data being imported. Then verify any existing address and building names against the import. So very slow. If you exclude the main downtown area and instead inspect buildings with the tag source=data.seattle.gov or source=King County GIS;data.seattle.govyou see much improved building outlines. They really standout against tracings of highrise buildings. The Bing satellite images are often at an angle which makes getting the foot print accurate. Good luck, -- Clifford OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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