Brian May, I like the idea of importing POIs in Florida! It sound like a great GIS hack. Also, I would love to import the building footprint layer in Miami-Dade County. I think that combining a building and address import together could possibly work. I don't think that a POI import could be combined as easily, and should probably be separate. The simplest way (that I see) would be having this in three imports. An address, building, and POI import. This would reduce possible upload errors and generally make the import more contributor friendly. This would also increase the amount of effort needed to finish it. I think that having the address import in the first round and buildings in the second would work very well. The POI import, which would have to be more manual, could be a separate project happening simultaneously. The buildings need to be transformed to OSM format before they are used. It would be great if you or another person could transform the dataset. A transformation should do the following: * Convert the "height"=* tag from feet to meters. * Either add the tag "duplicate"="yes" to all buildings that overlap with existing buildings in the OSM dataset or simply removing them could work. This way, contributors would not have to spend the time and energy manually removing buildings from the dataset. I did this with addresses in Durham County and it worked very well. The tasks don't involve any removing of duplicate addresses, and are instead focussed on merging the addresses with existing features. "Overlap" should be indicated by one of the following: 1) The way of the building being checked crosses the way of another building in the OSM database. 2) One of the nodes of the building being checked is inside one of the buildings in the OSM database. 3) One of the nodes of one of the buildings in the OSM database is inside of the building being checked. If any of the above are true, add "duplicate"="yes" to the building.
Frederik Ramm, Thanks for noticing the errors in the Wiki page. They have now been fixed. I originally copied the Durham County Address Import Wiki page which I created earlier this year, and a couple of references to that were visible on the Miami page. I also expanded the "Team Approach" section to mention that this will include local mappers. I am not planning on importing any addresses without manual checks. I wrote that to explain the current state of the data in order to reduce confusion, which ironically created it. What I meant was that importing data without any manual work would not put data on top of existing data and create duplicate addresses. All addresses imported will be manually checked by the contributor to increase data quality. I am hoping for this import to involve local mappers. I contacted several about the import and am planning on contacting more. Involving local community members could encourage them to learn how to use JOSM, which would in turn create more benefits. It would also help establish a mapping community in Miami, which would not be achieved by simply adding addresses. Also, I don't live in Miami, but I do spend quite a lot of time there. Thanks for the feedback! Leif Rasmussen
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