Alright. I will definitely reach out to them. If they give me permission I will be in touch about learning to use the tasking manager.
Sincerely, Raven King On Mon, 2020-08-10 at 15:46 -0700, Clifford Snow wrote: > Raven, > As Pat said, I've done a bunch of imports. Currently I'm importing > buildings and addresses for Marysville, WA. Because the building > footprints aren't the best quality, it will take a while. > > As far as the licensing goes, I'm sure if we contact the GIS manager > we can get written approval to use the data. Counties and cities are > pretty open to sharing their data with OSM. In fact my Marysville > import is being done for the city. I attempted to look up the GIS > manager but their web page doesn't show one. I'm sure I can get one > if we need it. The county does have both addresses and building > outlines. I'd encourage you to consider adding both. But, Thurston > county has 129K addresses and 146K building outlines. I'd recommend > doing the import in smaller chunks like cities or neighborhoods. > > As for the process, once I've made sure the data is in good shape, I > split it into small chunks, usually voting districts (even though we > don't use them in the state anymore - thank you mail in voting) The > data is then fed into OSM US's Tasking Manager for import using > JOSM. > > If you'd like to experience what it's like to use the Tasking Manager > contact me via email to import some of Marysville. > > Best, > Clifford > > > On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 5:18 PM Pat Tressel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Raven -- > > > > Our local import expert is Clifford Snow ( [email protected] > > ) -- he shepherded through the import of house numbers and building > > footprints for King County. What he did was to split up the data into more > > manageable pieces, and then put out a call for folks who live in each area > > to do the import "by hand". My memory is hazy, but the process was > > something like: We'd open the area in JOSM, then open the file with the > > house numbers and building polygons as a layer. We'd select and add a few > > at a time, after checking that they were ok. If you have a local OSM > > Meetup group, you could rope them in to do the work. Or, perhaps CUGOS > > folks could help. > > > > -- Pat > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-us-pugetsound mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us-pugetsound > > _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
