Hi Christoph, That's what I'm doing right now, going through block by block replacing buildings and retaining history, and de-duplicating POIs. My earlier plan was before I was advised about the replace geometry tool. I'm nearly finished.
Thanks all!! Joshua On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 3:00 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send Imports mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Imports digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Sitka, AK Buildings Import (Joshua Houston) > 2. Re: Sitka, AK Buildings Import (Denis Carriere) > 3. Re: Sitka, AK Buildings Import (Christoph Hormann) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 11:23:04 -0900 > From: Joshua Houston <[email protected]> > To: OSM Imports List <[email protected]> > Subject: [Imports] Sitka, AK Buildings Import > Message-ID: > <CAEygc==Um7it1ksQ6RXyi05BJBpSaMgiNe-pkbMcvHj4zxYKNA@mail. > gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hi all, > > It's been about 2 weeks since I proposed the Sitka, AK buildings import > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Sitka,_AK/Buildings_Import and added > it > to the import catalogue. > > There seems to be no objection. Some concerns were amenity attributes and > history, I've gone through and re-added the amenity attributes. As far as > history, I will retain history of the majority of buildings as I undertake > the import, rather than deleting all buildings and uploading my new ones. I > will be using the Replace Geometry tool in the utilsplugin2. > > May I have the approval to begin the import? > > Thanks and cheers, > > Joshua > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/imports/ > attachments/20170106/cf529914/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 15:41:32 -0500 > From: Denis Carriere <[email protected]> > To: Joshua Houston <[email protected]> > Cc: OSM Imports List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Imports] Sitka, AK Buildings Import > Message-ID: > <CAM4+Tg0wD9AEGbo62dt=GcRURxBpqqAkT+Eur0rmc8gKQi7xPQ@mail. > gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Thumbs up! > > Wiki looks great! > > On Jan 6, 2017 3:24 PM, "Joshua Houston" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > It's been about 2 weeks since I proposed the Sitka, AK buildings import > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Sitka,_AK/Buildings_Import and added > > it to the import catalogue. > > > > There seems to be no objection. Some concerns were amenity attributes and > > history, I've gone through and re-added the amenity attributes. As far as > > history, I will retain history of the majority of buildings as I > undertake > > the import, rather than deleting all buildings and uploading my new > ones. I > > will be using the Replace Geometry tool in the utilsplugin2. > > > > May I have the approval to begin the import? > > > > Thanks and cheers, > > > > Joshua > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Imports mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/imports/ > attachments/20170106/c80f3f1b/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 21:54:04 +0100 > From: Christoph Hormann <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Imports] Sitka, AK Buildings Import > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > On Friday 06 January 2017, Joshua Houston wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > It's been about 2 weeks since I proposed the Sitka, AK buildings > > import https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Sitka,_AK/Buildings_Import > > and added it to the import catalogue. > > > > There seems to be no objection. Some concerns were amenity attributes > > and history, I've gone through and re-added the amenity attributes. > > As far as history, I will retain history of the majority of buildings > > as I undertake the import, rather than deleting all buildings and > > uploading my new ones. I will be using the Replace Geometry tool in > > the utilsplugin2. > > > > May I have the approval to begin the import? > > You do not need approval since there is no authority that could give it > to you. The requirement is only to discuss this with interested > parties before you start. > > Since there was relatively little feedback so far i had a look and it > seems the data itself looks relatively good. You procedure however is > not really as it should be: > > * when there are already buildings mapped you should not just delete > them and add the new ones but replace the geometries (JOSM has a > function for that). This way you keep the history of the objects. > * you plan to add quite a few buildings with additional attributes where > there are already POI nodes at the moment which would - if you do it as > planned - lead to duplicate features - like: > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2461138638 > > for which your buildings.osm contains a building with matching > attributes. > > Since the total data volume is fairly small and most of the buildings > are new i would recommend to do this manually, i.e. not delete the > existing buildings all at once but go through the city block by block, > add the missing buildings and replace the geometries of those which > already exist while at the same time de-duplicating the POIs. > > -- > Christoph Hormann > http://www.imagico.de/ > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Imports mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Imports Digest, Vol 91, Issue 1 > ************************************** >
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