Any thoughts from the imports community? Should be a fairly straightforward import.
Thanks! On Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 1:40 PM Samuel Wallingford <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I am proposing a manual import of the southern portion of King County, WA. > A significant portion of north King County has been previously imported, > including Kirkland and Seattle. > > Wiki link is here: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/South_King_County_Import > > I am by far the most active mapper in this area, responsible for 95% of > the data surveyed in person and most of the armchair mapped data in Kent, > Renton, Burien, Covington, Tukwila, SeaTac, Des Moines, Federal Way, > Auburn, Sumner, Bonnie Lake, Black Diamond, Enumclaw, and more. > > This would be a hand-completed import by myself, based on the released > Bing building footprints (which have an OSM compatible license) and the > King Co. address data that was previously used for other area imports. > > Workflow is manual, using a portion of 1000 or so buildings copied from > the Bing dataset, manually merged using the JOSM conflate tool with the > King Co. address data. > > Tagging would be simple: > > building=yes > addr:street=[expanded street name with no abbreviations] > addr:housenumber=XXXX > addr:city=XXXX > addr:postcode=XXXXX > addr:state=WA > > Data would be then manually conflated with existing data. As I have mapped > the vast majority of existing data and live in the area, I know of many new > buildings that are not on any satellite photos, and can intelligently merge > them. > > I will communicate with some local mappers who occasionally map in very > localized areas before I import near those locations. Given I track nearby > changes using the various QA tools, I am very familiar with the local > community, even mappers who only map a few times a year. > > Being a committed, long term local mapper, I have a vested interest in > avoiding the one and done import style. I am constantly updating the map in > the area. > > This brings a great deal of value to the local community and OSM as a > dataset, given the fact that there is a population of 500k. > > Let me know if you have any questions. > > Thanks. > > Sam > >
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