Hi Colin, Thanks for sharing the info on this project. I work at Esri and we have a process for preparing this type of GIS buildings data so that it can be added to OpenStreetMap. This involves steps such as transforming the data field names and values into keys and values expected by the OSM community.
I download the SHP version of the data from the City and took a quick look. The data does seem to have a useful set of field (e.g. code, address, name, height) that could be used effectively with some data prep. We'll look more closely but it appears that most of the ~540k buildings in the data are not currently available in OSM so they would add good value. Given the explicit permission from the City, we would be happy to take on this data prep work and make it available to the OSM US community to add to OSM through editors like JOSM and RapiD. If there are no objections, we'll add this to our list and plan to share the results of our data prep work with the community to review before making available to add to OSM. Cheers, Deane -----Original Message----- From: Colin Gzesh via Imports-us <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 3:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Imports-us] Philly Building/Address import request My intention on writing this is to allow someone to continue where I left off. This was a project I attempted to undertake more than a year ago, but I eventually gave up due to my lack of confidence in myself to handle this properly (due to my lack of competence). Here is the link to the dataset in question: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.opendataphilly.org/dataset/buildings__;!!CKZwjTOV!kLSPQBZ86H4bFbSoauaVfzFBW_8C1SciIiOgngAGqO8rvmyYbzscnq4_lOHR$ [opendataphilly[.]org] Below is the email I sent: > Good afternoon, > > I am an avid contributor to the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project, a collaborative > open project to create a global geodata set freely usable by anyone. It has > seen widespread adoption from varoius organizations, including SEPTA. > > I wanted to attempt an import of Philadelphia Building Footprints into > OpenStreetmap. However, I'm not sure if this is allowed. In order to import a > given dataset, it must be compatible with the Open Database License, or the > OpenStreetMap community must have explicit permission to use that data set. > > I am unsure if the "City of Philadelphia Liscence" is compatible, so what I > am requesting is a public statement similar to the one below. > > "The City of Philadelphia has no objections to geodata derived in part from > Building Footprints Dataset being incorporated into the OpenStreetMap project > geodata database and released under a free and open license" > > Regards, > Colin Gzesh Here is the response that I've received: > Hi Colin, > > > > My name is Dani Interrante, I’m with the GIS team for the Department of > Licenses and Inspections. I was forwarded your inquiry about including the > building footprints dataset we maintain in the Open Street Map project. I > wanted to let you know that we were given the go ahead from upper management > to allow these to be included. As for the dataset itself, the version on > Open Data Philly is a bit out of date we made some back end modifications to > the schema that haven’t made it out to the public facing site yet. I can > upload the most recent version to a google drive if you’d like to get ahold > of it sooner rather than later. Also, I was curious if you were just > planning to do a one-time load or if you were going to continue to > maintain/automate it. Thank you for taking the initiative on this, we’re > always excited when our products are put to good use. I have not verified this, but the dataset was most-likely updated since I last bothered to work on this, especially since in a later email she said that the "open data version of the building footprints should be fixed by the beginning of June." Anyway, I would love to see someone else be able to finish what I started. The licensing has been cleared. The data is available right there to download. All that's left to do is for someone to download the data and upload it OSM! _______________________________________________ Imports-us mailing list [email protected] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports-us__;!!CKZwjTOV!kLSPQBZ86H4bFbSoauaVfzFBW_8C1SciIiOgngAGqO8rvmyYbzscnpBuKe8x$ [lists[.]openstreetmap[.]org] _______________________________________________ Imports-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports-us
