Hi Mike, Great idea!
I used to live in Fayetteville and now I'm out in Los Angles helping out with the building import here. I agree with Frederik and Clifford about trying to get someone to help you. We've used our import to build some community around the import. It's a bit tedious so we've only hand a handful of events. That said, your address and building attributes would go a long way in improving the data itself. Maybe, though, the Fayetteville Flyer could get involved? Or possibly the NW Democrat-Gazette? If they want a free way to make more maps for their news stories this could provide an incentive to improve the data. In regards to the data/tagging, it looks like some of these houses are tagged as building=detached. I think it'd be more appropriate to tag them building=house. For duplexes building=residential. And for apartments/condos usually building=apartments. The default is building=yes. Are there possibly more data tags you could add that would be of value? Maybe when the house was built, a unique property ID number or unit count? I'd also suggest creating a page on wiki.openstreetmap.org to detail the data and the import. Here's a link to ours: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Los_Angeles,_California/Buildings_Import And finally, how did the city collect the data and how old is it? Sometimes the satellite imagery is more up-to-date than the data. You may also be able to tie into more up to date imagery collected by the city since that would likely fall into the public domain under the Arkansas Public Records Act. For instance, the tile server here looks to have pretty good imagery (I'm not sure on the age): http://gis2.accessfayetteville.org/faygis/rest/services/BaseMaps/Aerial_Current_WGS84/MapServer/tile/8/678760/250154 I'm happy to connect off-list if you have any questions or need an introduction with the Flyer/DemGaz folk. cheers, Jon On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 9:41 AM, Clifford Snow <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 8:24 AM, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> are there any local mappers in Fayetteville or in the vicinity that >> you could invite to help with your project? >> >> If that was possible then you'd have a larger group who feel responsible >> for the data set and it wouldn't be your responsibility alone. In the >> best outcome, this could even help invigorate local mapping efforts. >> > > +1 to Frederik's suggestion. > > > -- > @osm_seattle > osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us > OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch > > _______________________________________________ > Imports mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports > > -- Jon Schleuss http://www.jschleuss.com/ <http://jschleuss.com/>
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