Already posted on [imports-us] but apparently I forgot to include it in here. Reposting:
Hi, We're proposing a building import for Miami-Date County, FL. Data is in the public domain [1]. The initiative was started off with a Maptime Miami Meetup event in May by Matthew Toro [2]. There seem to be an interest from the community. The dataset contains ~100k buildings (called large building footprints) throughout the county with height information. Currently, there are ~15k buildings in OSM for the same extent so it will be a huge improvement. An Address dataset also exists in the public domain [3]. Local community is extremely small here compared to other places like NYC or LA, so we are planning to import most of the buildings via a script. For this, we are checking for potential conflicts. We are not going to upload buildings - overlapping with existing OSM buildings - overlapping with highway/railway=* - in the proximity of existing OSM addresses We checked for 1-1 relations between the Buildings and Address datasets and assigned addresses for buildings in the bulk process. We ended up having ~85k buildings in the automatic bucket which leaves ~10k buildings for manual review. Manual review by the community will be organized through Task Manager jobs based on US Census Block Groups. We are hoping that this import task will be the kick start of a growing OSM community in South Florida. Matthew will be at SOTMUS in Seattle and will talk about this import [4]. The next MaptimeMIA meetup is scheduled on August 1 [5] where we can provide an update on the current state to the local community, and (hopefully) we can also start presenting the steps required for the manual import process. The Wiki page [6] and the technical documentation [7] are yet to be updated but our workflow is ready for testing. We are planning to start the whole process soon. More updates to come. Please feel free to provide any feedback you might have. Hit us up with any questions/comments or open an issue on GitHub [7]. Cheers, Levente - github.com/jlevente Adam - github.com/adamold Matthew - github.com/MTORO003 [1] Large Buildings dataset:http://gis.mdc.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/1e87b925717747c7b59979caa7779039_1 [2] MaptimeMIA Meetup 1: MaptimeMIA Meetup 1:http://www.meetup.com/Maptime-Miami/events/230493698/ [3] Address dataset:http://gis.mdc.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/128dcc2c4cac403dbd1d7440e10fa583_0 [4] Miami Building Import at SOTMUS:http://www.meetup.com/Maptime-Miami/events/232730098/ [5] MaptimeMIA Meetup 2: https://github.com/jlevente/MiamiOSM-buildings [6] Miami-Date Building Import Wiki:http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Miami-Dade_County_Large_Building_Import [7] Codes and technical documentation of the import:https://github.com/jlevente/MiamiOSM-buildings
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