Sorry, I misunderstood your comment. I'm happy to look at the tool you were talking about -- can you point us in the direction of where to find it and/or an example of its use?
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Jason Remillard <[email protected]>wrote: > Hey, it is up to you! If you think it's not a big deal to spot check > million buildings, then go for it! I'm not helping either way. > > And, yes, given who is on this team ... its 30 minute job for you > guys. For me, 3 hours. > > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Ian Dees <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Jason Remillard < > [email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> NY city is so large (if it was a state, it would be 10th largest > >> state), any kind of manual work is going to be an big issue. Why not > >> just automated everything that is easy (say things that don't > >> conflict), or more aggressively don't merge correctly with Paul's > >> script, and let the humans focus on the hard addresses that can't be > >> easily sorted out by the automation. It would take you guys less than > >> a 30 minutes of coding to separate out the buildings that overlap with > >> OSM and those that don't. Push the buildings that don't overlap right > >> into OSM. > > > > > > Having done this in Chicago, I can say that it's not that difficult to do > > the manual conflation process. Three things: > > > > 1) There aren't that many buildings in OSM already. Probably more than > there > > were in Chicago, but the majority of the tasks in task manager will > simply > > be "spot check and upload" > > > > 2) In most cases, the buildings in OSM are simply tagged "building=yes" > or > > similar. In these cases (unless there is noticeably better geometry in > OSM), > > it's better to simply delete the data from OSM and let the imported data > > replace it because the imported buildings will probably have better/more > > geometry and tagging. > > > > 3) The process as they have it is pretty simple and easy to follow. Plus, > > the task manager is already loaded and ready to go. If it takes 30 > minutes > > of coding to separate out the buildings, I'm sure it would be helpful for > > you to go ahead and do that then make a pull request against the process > in > > GitHub so discussion can happen. Don't forget that once this "upload > totally > > new buildings" step is done then the task manager tasks would need to be > > removed or marked done, so don't forget to factor that into the time > > estimate for the automatic step. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Imports mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports > > >
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