Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-30 Thread Lester Caine
Paul Norman wrote: If you assume wall=no buildings attached to buildings without a wall tag can be combined, I would estimate that the number of ways is at least 1.5x what it needs to be. -1, I'd suggest building=roof for those that are roofs. IMHO it is nice to distinguish them. Why do you

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-30 Thread Christian Quest
2012/9/30 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk: The problem *I* am seeing with the cadastre data I have looked at is that a building is not simply one or two profiles, but several seemingly unrelated elements all strange shapes and not relating to the imagery. Since there is no explanation of the

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-30 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am 30.09.2012 um 03:28 schrieb Paul Norman penor...@mac.com: The distribution of building sizes indicates otherwise. The most common building size in the cadastre imports is a mere 6 square meters (65 square feet). Sorry, of course you are right, I guess I was confused last night ;-)

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-30 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/9/30 Christian Quest cqu...@openstreetmap.fr: We provided explanations many times... Separate polygons can come from: - different ownership of building parts ... It is not data errors, but much more detailed geometry compared to what you can do by simply surveying or trace on aerials.

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-30 Thread Paul Norman
From: Vladimir Vyskocil [mailto:vladimir.vysko...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre The larger part of cadastre data is just dumped into the data base never to be touched again by any mapper. That's also wrong, the french

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-30 Thread Lester Caine
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: We provided explanations many times... Separate polygons can come from: - different ownership of building parts ... It is not data errors, but much more detailed geometry compared to what you can do by simply surveying or trace on aerials. IMHO it is a data error

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-30 Thread Alan Millar
On Sep 30, 2012, at 3:41 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: Of these 17.9 million are version=1. 62.2% of cadastre building ways are never touched again by any mapper. So what? That still doesn't tell you anything. We've already heard descriptions of the process including edits and

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-30 Thread Alan Millar
On Sep 30, 2012, at 3:10 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: As far as I know we do not at all tag owners of objects in OSM. By we, do you mean your local community or all OSM users? If all users, then as far as I know, we tag anything we find useful in OSM. Oh, see also:

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-29 Thread Paul Norman
From: Toby Murray [mailto:toby.mur...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Réf.: Re: All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre I think the biggest cost for long tags that are heavily used is really in the planet file size. A bigger planet takes longer to generate, longer to

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-29 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am 30.09.2012 um 02:04 schrieb Paul Norman penor...@mac.com: in a city where the buildings are joined). A complete analysis is beyond the scope of this email, but we can get an idea from [2] and the fact that the most common unsimplified building area in the import is 6 square meters[3].

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-29 Thread Paul Norman
From: Martin Koppenhoefer [mailto:dieterdre...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2012 5:21 PM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre Am 30.09.2012 um 02:04 schrieb Paul Norman penor...@mac.com: in a city where the buildings are joined

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-28 Thread Sarah Hoffmann
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:21:38PM +0100, THEVENON Julien wrote: De : Sarah Hoffmann lon...@denofr.de I don't know which data you have been looking at, but let's ask Nominatim, shall we? Ok, so by example could you extract stats from Grenoble instead of whole France ? I thinks this quite

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-28 Thread Paul Norman
Le ven. 28 sept. 2012 08:00 HAEC, Paul Norman a écrit : sorry this detailled here in section les differents calques wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Cadastre_Français/Aspects_techni ques_du_cadastre_en_ligne and here qu est ce qui est reutilisable

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-28 Thread Vladimir Vyskocil
The larger part of cadastre data is just dumped into the data base never to be touched again by any mapper. That's also wrong, the french community has developed some very powerful tools like osmose.openstreetmap.fr which is used to automatically discover many errors from cadastre and

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-28 Thread Richard Mann
While I would agree that the French data is huge, it _is_ pleasing to be able to make maps where the density of building is observable, even if you know nothing about the buildings. I'm not sure that every building in every village is quite required, but it'll probably go that way eventually. Is

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-28 Thread Lester Caine
Vladimir Vyskocil wrote: I don't agree the cadastre is ugly once rendered ! A rendered map like this for example, is in my opinion something more pleasant than a map with only a house once and there with large holes : http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=43.70272lon=7.26654zoom=15layers=Q This

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-28 Thread Vladimir Vyskocil
There are some excellent examples of how mapping should be done all over the world. But I do hope we have shown that a large percentage of the data STILL needs a lot of work? At the end of the day this is more about education of mappers and how to get the best out of the material

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-28 Thread Lester Caine
Vladimir Vyskocil wrote: There are some excellent examples of how mapping should be done all over the world. But I do hope we have shown that a large percentage of the data STILL needs a lot of work? At the end of the day this is more about education of mappers and how to get the best out of

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-28 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 28/09/2012 10:00, Lester Caine a écrit : There are some excellent examples of how mapping should be done all over the world. But I do hope we have shown that a large percentage of the data STILL needs a lot of work? At the end of the day this is more about education of mappers and how to

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 27/09/2012 02:22, Martin Koppenhoefer a écrit : 2012/9/26 Pieren pier...@gmail.com: To Frederik, In your example, I agree with you that the diagonal line is a glitch, most probably coming from a parcel line just underneath. actually it is not only the diagonal line (which is an obvious

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Pieren
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 2:18 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: Conclusion: A significant number of cadastre imported buildings consist of multiple ways, such as in the example Frederik gave. The difference from other buildings a week old is statistically significant. This is true even

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: Personally I would prefer to see http://www.remote.org/frederik/tmp/funnybuilding.png as a single closed outline box. I think that 6-7 buildings (looking at the bing aerial

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Paul Norman
From: Pieren [mailto:pier...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 2:18 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: Conclusion: A significant number of cadastre imported buildings consist of multiple ways

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/9/27 Vincent Pottier vpott...@gmail.com: Le 27/09/2012 02:22, Martin Koppenhoefer a écrit : actually it is not only the diagonal line (which is an obvious error), but it is also all or most of the divisions, which don't seem to corrispond at all to real buildings or parts of them (maybe

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Pieren
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: buildings should follow reality (which they apparently don't do at all in the cadastre version). How can you say that from an aerial imagery ? It is also possible that the cadastre is outdated. Like any source

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/9/27 Pieren pier...@gmail.com: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: buildings should follow reality (which they apparently don't do at all in the cadastre version). How can you say that from an aerial imagery ? It is also possible that the

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
Pieren wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: buildings should follow reality (which they apparently don't do at all in the cadastre version). How can you say that from an aerial imagery ? It is also possible that the cadastre is outdated.

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Vladimir Vyskocil
On 27 sept. 2012, at 14:04, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Now that I have scanned some of the French material I must say that it is of very low quality and all of the stuff I have reviewed needs at least SOME work to bring it up to a better standard. At best all one can say

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Sylvain Maillard
Hi, I think we should perhaps add a new section in the cadastre documentation: the purpose of the cadastre, and the way it is made. In France you need to ask for a permission from the public authority (the municipalities) before to make a new building. It include a detailed map of what you want

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Pieren
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Many of the buildings moving away from the one identified simply do not even fit the footprint on the bing imagery and many of the 'divisions' seem to follow the ridge of a building rather than a difference between roof

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread THEVENON Julien
De : Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk Many of the buildings moving away from the one identified simply do not even fit the footprint on the bing imagery ? What make you so sure that the thruth is in imagery and not in cadastre ? particulary considering that Bing is often several year late

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Simon Poole
Am 27.09.2012 14:25, schrieb Vladimir Vyskocil: On 27 sept. 2012, at 14:04, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Now that I have scanned some of the French material I must say that it is of very low quality and all of the stuff I have reviewed needs at least SOME work to bring it up to a

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Olivier Croquette
On Sep 27, 2012, at 2:18 AM, Paul Norman wrote: This is not an example that you only find after a long search; it is a typical cadastre import building. Until you can back up your claim with solid numbers, your claim, more specifically the wordtypical, is just FUD. Furthermore it can hurt

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread THEVENON Julien
De : Simon Poole si...@poole.ch Supposedly the cadastre includes street names and house numbers, however of the 27 million buildings (plus 6 million wall=no) only a minuscule number have further information attached, matter of fact there are more nodes with addresses tagged in France than

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
THEVENON Julien wrote: * *Many of the buildings moving away from the one identified simply do not even fit the footprint on the bing imagery ? What make you so sure that the thruth is in imagery and not in cadastre ? particulary considering that Bing is often several year late and that offical

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
On 27/09/2012 12:01, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: Interesting, I have never heard before of building=yes with wall=no I just had lunch in an Italian restaurant, which I promptly tagged while waiting for my dessert... It happened to be located in a cadastre-imported building in two parts - one

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Simon Poole
Am 27.09.2012 15:03, schrieb THEVENON Julien: * De :* Simon Poole si...@poole.ch * *Supposedly the cadastre includes street names and house numbers, however * *of the 27 million buildings (plus 6 million wall=no) only a minuscule * *number have further information attached, matter of fact

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread maning sambale
At least in my country, address is tied to lot parcels and not to individual buildings. And since we dont have parcel data, we add housenumber as nodes. Maning Sambale (mobile) On Sep 27, 2012 9:32 PM, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: Am 27.09.2012 15:03, schrieb THEVENON Julien: * De :*

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
On 27/09/2012 15:29, Simon Poole wrote: Just so there is no misunderstanding: even taking address tagged nodes in to account, the addresses / houses ratio is lower and at best not different than in other countries without countrywide access to cadastre-like sources. 3% with nodes, 0.6%

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Christian Quest
2012/9/27 Simon Poole si...@poole.ch: Just so there is no misunderstanding: even taking address tagged nodes in to account, the addresses / houses ratio is lower and at best not different than in other countries without countrywide access to cadastre-like sources. 3% with nodes, 0.6% without,

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread THEVENON Julien
De :Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org Because the cadastre work is an armchair mapping process whereas the address tagging requires local survey. They are often done by two different type of contributors. On top of that as the cadastre distinguish light buildings and buildings, house

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
Joakim Fors wrote: Not having access to the cadastre layer I can't comment on the differences between what has been traced and the source data, but I can SEE a distinct positional difference between the bing layer and the OSM buildings. If there was a general offset, then I would accept that

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: So the question remains why the information in not being added to the outlines. Because the cadastre work is an armchair mapping process whereas the address tagging requires local survey. They are often done by two different type of contributors. Armchair mapping via

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
On 27/09/2012 16:07, Lester Caine wrote: France would benefit from a few 'cadastre' importers filling other details in the areas they are importing :( In that you agree with most of the opinions expressed on the French list : contributors using the cadastre generally add other details at the

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/9/27 THEVENON Julien julien_theve...@yahoo.fr: De : Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org Because the cadastre work is an armchair mapping process whereas the address tagging requires local survey. They are often done by two different type of contributors. On top of that as the cadastre

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread SomeoneElse
Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: In that you agree with most of the opinions expressed on the French list : contributors using the cadastre generally add other details at the same time, which is one of the reasons why they find using two different accounts inconvenient. Maybe it's a work in

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread THEVENON Julien
De : SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk Maybe it's a work in progress: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=43.99103lon=0.33956zoom=15layers=M Or there are some people that think this is a good way to highlight where some roads are missing. Personnaly I prefer to draw roads and building at

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread THEVENON Julien
De : Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com +1, usually (at least in some cities I checked) housenumbers are identifying a whole parcel (exceptions exist), IMHO better then assigning them to a single house as Simon suggested it would be to add them to the whole parcel (I guess you have

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
On 27/09/2012 16:28, SomeoneElse wrote: Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: In that you agree with most of the opinions expressed on the French list : contributors using the cadastre generally add other details at the same time, which is one of the reasons why they find using two different accounts

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread SomeoneElse
Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: Without the isolated clusters of buildings, how would you know that some important roads are missing ? Visiting the village and walking around it? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
On 27/09/2012 16:45, SomeoneElse wrote: Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: Without the isolated clusters of buildings, how would you know that some important roads are missing ? Visiting the village and walking around it? Are we now reaching the crux of this discussion ? Do you believe that local

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Pieren
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:45 PM, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote: Visiting the village and walking around it? This village is named Condom. That's probably why you remember it and forward this example from time to time. Would you come if we organize a mapping party at Condom ? (I

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: France would benefit from a few 'cadastre' importers filling other details in the areas they are importing :( In that you agree with most of the opinions expressed on the French list : contributors using the cadastre generally add other details at the same time, which

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: In that you agree with most of the opinions expressed on the French list : contributors using the cadastre generally add other details at the same time, which is one of the reasons why they find using two different accounts inconvenient. Maybe

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
Pieren wrote: Visiting the village and walking around it? This village is named Condom. That's probably why you remember it and forward this example from time to time. Would you come if we organize a mapping party at Condom ? (I said mapping party). But hey, the village is mapped. We just miss

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Vincent Privat
2012/9/27 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk If I was involved in managing this, then to be honest I'd be considering wiping it again. Then I am glad you are not involved in it, because it would be a serious case of vandalism. This would be totally unjustified to wipe such a valid geographic

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread THEVENON Julien
De : Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk Looking at the imagery or some other source if you are an arm chair mapper, or driving around with the GPS tracker if you want a run in the country. THEN adding buildings using the other sources. Even just looking at what is available on potlatch for

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread THEVENON Julien
De : Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk The 'two accounts' is a bit of red herring here - in my opinion - but similarly JUST uploading buildings is pointless? Not at all. This is the heart of the problem for a lot of french contributors !!! as already mentionned raw building import is the

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread SomeoneElse
Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: Are we now reaching the crux of this discussion ? Do you believe that local survey is a requirement for mapping ? I don't and I back my position with all the places I have mapped without having visited them - I'm curious about what criticism you'll express about the

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 27/09/2012 16:28, SomeoneElse a écrit : Maybe it's a work in progress: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=43.99103lon=0.33956zoom=15layers=M Cheers, Andy OSM is a work in progress. -- FrViPofm ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: Without the isolated clusters of buildings, how would you know that some important roads are missing ? Visiting the village and walking around it? Are we now reaching the crux of this discussion ? Do you believe that local survey is a

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote: Actually, I think that on-the-ground mapping and the use of aerial imagery / cadastre data are complementary. There are many things that you'd miss if you used one exclusively at the expense of the other. Yes - and local surveyors being the

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Christian Quest
2012/9/27 Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com: +1, usually (at least in some cities I checked) housenumbers are identifying a whole parcel (exceptions exist), IMHO better then assigning them to a single house as Simon suggested it would be to add them to the whole parcel (I guess you

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Sarah Hoffmann
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 04:59:27PM +0100, THEVENON Julien wrote: For major part of French contributors we are adding buildings and other details not related to cadastre, so having one account per kind of edit will be really painfull.. but it it will not be for people that just perform raw

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Eric Marsden
sh == Sarah Hoffmann lon...@denofr.de writes: sh Objects are real word objects here: highways, pois, boundaries etc. sh In other words, for 7 imported buildings you manage to map one sh non-cadastre object. So indeed, I would agree that French sh contributors do map other details. sh

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 27/09/2012 09:49, Lester Caine a écrit : Claims are being made that the French data is more up to date, but if it is not being properly geo-referenced and is producing poor quality data should it be allowed in? returning to the example, in the absence of evidence that the building IS split

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread THEVENON Julien
De : Sarah Hoffmann lon...@denofr.de Hi Sarah, Sorry for this late response and hope to make debate less passionate. I don't know which data you have been looking at, but let's ask Nominatim, shall we? Great idea, this is always good to discuss about facts Ok, so by example could you

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Pieren
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Sarah Hoffmann lon...@denofr.de wrote: for 7 imported buildings you manage to map one non-cadastre object. As Eric said, I find the ratio quite good. I would be interested by the ratio buldings/non buildings in Germany (your email is German). As I understood, it

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Lester Caine
Vincent Pottier wrote: Claims are being made that the French data is more up to date, but if it is not being properly geo-referenced and is producing poor quality data should it be allowed in? returning to the example, in the absence of evidence that the building IS split into multiple units it

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-27 Thread Paul Norman
From: Christian Quest [mailto:cqu...@openstreetmap.fr] Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre 2012/9/27 Simon Poole si...@poole.ch: Just so there is no misunderstanding: even taking address tagged nodes in to account, the addresses / houses ratio

[OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-26 Thread Christian Quest
2012/9/26 THEVENON Julien julien_theve...@yahoo.fr: De : Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk Sees the light :) Great ! SO while we have this type of raster data from as a background in potlatch and josm and some elements of it in vector files from OS and other sources. You are having to

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-26 Thread Olivier Croquette
On Sep 26, 2012, at 6:25 PM, Christian Quest wrote: The OSM data is extracted from PDF vector data. To be exhaustive, I have to mention that this is true only for cities that have a vector cadaster. Some cities (10% as an order of magnitude) have only a raster cadaster, in which case the

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-26 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Olivier Croquette m...@ocroquette.de wrote: If no, it doesn't make any sense to me that a vector based process for the cadaster is an import, and a raster based is not. Everything is the same : kind of data, license, provider… There seems to be a

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-26 Thread Olivier Croquette
On Sep 26, 2012, at 7:44 PM, Richard Weait wrote: I think that drawing all of the nodes and points manually is an important difference, from a quality point of view. Each node or way that you draw by hand, is carefully considered and placed, one at a time. It isn't perfect; nothing is. I

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-26 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 26.09.2012 19:44, Richard Weait wrote: I think that drawing all of the nodes and points manually is an important difference, from a quality point of view. Each node or way that you draw by hand, is carefully considered and placed, one at a time. It isn't perfect; nothing is. I suggest

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-26 Thread Lester Caine
Frederik Ramm wrote: I think that drawing all of the nodes and points manually is an important difference, from a quality point of view. Each node or way that you draw by hand, is carefully considered and placed, one at a time. It isn't perfect; nothing is. I suggest that this leads to a kind

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-26 Thread THEVENON Julien
De : Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org To give an example, look at this imported building http://www.remote.org/frederik/tmp/funnybuilding.png Note how the main building consists of 8 separate parts plus a strange diagonal line, and note how the smallest parts are just about 2 metres wide.

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-26 Thread Olivier Croquette
On Sep 26, 2012, at 8:13 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: On 26.09.2012 19:44, Richard Weait wrote: I think that drawing all of the nodes and points manually is an important difference, from a quality point of view. Each node or way that you draw by hand, is carefully considered and placed, one at a

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-26 Thread THEVENON Julien
De : Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk Now that I understand what is going on, I can see where some off the 'extra' lines come from, and the diagonal is probably due to a boundary detail from changing sheets. This is more often due to split of landuse ownership. There is no differences

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-26 Thread Lester Caine
THEVENON Julien wrote: * De :* Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk * *Now that I understand what is going on, I can see where some off the 'extra' lines come from, and the diagonal is probably due to a boundary detail from changing sheets. This is more often due to split of landuse ownership. There

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-26 Thread Pieren
To Richard, I've seen examples where manually tracing over raster images has been done roughly and quickly. It's not a guarantee of quality. You are saying that it's time consuming to check data from external source and probably more accurate to trace manually over raster images. But it is also

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-26 Thread Vincent de Chateau-Thierry
Hi, Le 26/09/2012 19:44, Richard Weait a écrit : I think that drawing all of the nodes and points manually is an important difference, from a quality point of view. Each node or way that you draw by hand, is carefully considered and placed, one at a time. It isn't perfect; nothing is. I

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-26 Thread Christian Quest
In France, cadastre is the most official source about buildings and land ownership. When you buy/sell a building all the documents refers to the cadastre. It provides sometime too many details compared to what could be seen by survey. Does this mean it is wrong to have too many details ?

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-26 Thread Petr Morávek [Xificurk]
Richard Weait wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Olivier Croquette m...@ocroquette.de wrote: If no, it doesn't make any sense to me that a vector based process for the cadaster is an import, and a raster based is not. Everything is the same : kind of data, license, provider…

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-26 Thread Lester Caine
Christian Quest wrote: So cross check with Bing must be done afterwards, exactly like when using vector data. That's why I consider manual tracing as a waste of time, and not high quality compared to using extracted building from vector data. Christian I've now seen your source data, and that

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-26 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 26/09/2012 23:00, Christian Quest a écrit : In France, cadastre is the most official source about buildings and land ownership. When you buy/sell a building all the documents refers to the cadastre. It provides sometime too many details compared to what could be seen by survey. Does this

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-26 Thread Christian Quest
2012/9/26 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk: Christian Quest wrote: So cross check with Bing must be done afterwards, exactly like when using vector data. That's why I consider manual tracing as a waste of time, and not high quality compared to using extracted building from vector data.

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-26 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 27/09/2012 00:35, Christian Quest a écrit : I agree that a tool in JOSM (or whatever is your editor of choice) to split a polygon into 2 smaller polygons could be really helpful, not only for buildings. In JOSM ? I add 2 nodes (with the middle cross in the segments) I select them and the

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-26 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/9/26 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk: Personally I would prefer to see http://www.remote.org/frederik/tmp/funnybuilding.png as a single closed outline box. I think that 6-7 buildings (looking at the bing aerial

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-26 Thread Paul Norman
From: Olivier Croquette [mailto:m...@ocroquette.de] Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 11:59 AM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre This is not an example that you only find after a long search; it is a typical cadastre import building

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-26 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/9/26 Pieren pier...@gmail.com: To Frederik, In your example, I agree with you that the diagonal line is a glitch, most probably coming from a parcel line just underneath. actually it is not only the diagonal line (which is an obvious error), but it is also all or most of the divisions,

Re: [OSM-talk] All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-26 Thread Vincent de Chateau-Thierry
Hi, Le 27/09/2012 02:18, Paul Norman a écrit : Now, the analysis of geometry. One measure of how broken down into parts buildings are is to take the buildings, turn them into polygons, combine them into one multipolygon with ST_Union and then count the number of parts with ST_Dump and