Randy If the source department maintains a persistent object id I recommend including it in the import; you might tag it similarly to
union_county_ga:bldg_id : integer On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Randal Hale < [email protected]> wrote: > Union County Georgia made their buildings (as well as roads) accessible > through a public domain license - they've asked myself (rjhale1971) and > Carol (geocak) to upload them into OpenStreetMap. > > So far: > > - I added a row to the import catalog - but it appears to have > disappeared - so here is the page: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Data_Import_for_Union_County_Georgia > . I'll add it back to the catalog. > - The building footprint data came with addresses that had already > been spatially joined (conflated) - so each building has an address > consisting of housenumber, streetname, city, and zipcode. > - Buildings had been categorized (churches, commercial, houses, mobile > homes, accessory) by the GIS department and I moved that to match OSM tags. > - There are about 27000 building foot prints so I've divided the > county into a grid. Data will be uploaded and checked by grid - some > buildings do intersect the grid but it's a very rural area. > - This isn't a scripted import. Each grid will be checked in JOSM and > validated before it's uploaded. > - I pulled Churches and Schools out to add an amenity tag to > those. There are less than 70 polygons - they will be uploaded outside > of > the grid method I've devised. > - We will be checking addresses against the highway name in OSM. > - Finally - I'll be encouraging the Union County GIS department to > interact with OSM more - they've expressed an interest in doing more with > it - as have other counties in the area. So I hope this is spurs their > involvement. I'm not encouraging them to upload - but to edit and work with > the map. > - Both Carol and myself will have a separate import account (in the > process of making that - It will most likely be rjhale1971_import and > geocak_import. > > I would like to do a small upload to check everything at some point this > weekend - I expect the entire process to take a week or more if I don't run > into problems. If I do I stop and re-evaluate. > > Randy > > -- > ----------------- > Randal Hale, GISP > North River Geographic Systems, > Inchttp://www.northrivergeographic.com423.653.3611 > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > <[email protected]> > twitter:rjhalehttp://about.me/rjhale > > > _______________________________________________ > Imports-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports-us > > -- John Novak 585-OLD-TOPOS (585-653-8676) http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnanovak/ OSM ID:oldtopos OSM Heat Map: http://yosmhm.neis-one.org/?oldtopos OSM Edit Stats:http://hdyc.neis-one.org/?oldtopos
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