Sorry for the additional email. I meant to include this link for where the
imagery is publicly available
http://dggs.alaska.gov/file_transfer/CityOfSitka_data/Imagery Sid/

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Joshua Houston <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Yes, I drew them myself for the city. They are in a shapefile format - WGS
> 84. When I started drawing them I would've happily drawn them in OSM with
> the new imagery as the background but I didn't know how to do that.
>
> You can see I asked about that very thing here in 2013:
> https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/26449/uploading-background-images
>
> Since that time I've learned all of our imagery is in public domain
> because it's purchased with public funds. They are now publicly available
> for download as well at this site  I drew the buildings first for city use
> and now I'm ready to import them into OSM.
>
> As far as handling conflicts, it's a very small town and I am confident I
> could resolve the conflicts in a very timely manner.
>
> Thanks for your questions!
>
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>> Hello,
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>> I am hoping to import buildings and address data that is in the public
>> domain for the city of Sitka, Alaska. The building footprints have been
>> drawn from publicly available imagery found here
>> http://dggs.alaska.gov/file_transfer/CityOfSitka_data/Imagery_Sid/ and
>> the
>> address points have been extracted from publicly available parcel data
>> found here
>> http://www.mainstreetmaps.com/AK/Sitka/downloads/AK_Sitka_Parcels.zip
>>
>> I have created a wiki page to document this process.
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Sitka,_AK/Buildings_Import
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>> I know the only 2 active mappers in the area and they are interested in
>> this happening as well.
>>
>> Thank you!
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>> Joshua Houston
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>> From: Frederik Ramm <[email protected]>
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>> Hi,
>>
>> On 03/30/2016 12:43 AM, Joshua Houston wrote:
>> > The building footprints have been
>> > drawn from publicly available imagery
>>
>> "drawn" as in "manually traced from the imagery by yourself", or...? If
>> that's the case, then in what format do you currently have the results
>> of this tracing?
>>
>> I'm a bit surprised because the usual process would be to simply
>> configure the imagery as a background layer for an editor and then trace
>> stuff directly into OSM (thereby nicely avoiding any conflicts between
>> what is traced and what is already in OSM) - but that's not the path you
>> chose here?
>>
>> Bye
>> Frederik
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