Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2020-01-17 Thread john whelan
Pierre looking at the Microsoft imports south of the border and their process is undoubtedly sensible. I suggest waiting until we have got some movement on the current import rather than try to tackle to many things at once. Cheerio John On Fri, Jan 17, 2020, 1:47 PM Pierre Béland, wrote: >

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2020-01-17 Thread Pierre Béland via Talk-ca
John, Exprime tu simplement une opinion, ou as-tu vérifié les procédures d'import incluant correction des données et validé la qualité des données importées aux États-Unis ? Considères-tu la qualité des données dans la base OSM aux États-Unis comparable à ce qui s'est fait au Canada l'an

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2020-01-17 Thread john whelan
> As stated before, I don't consider the Microsoft dataset being close to the minimum quality requirements I would expect from any automated building entry into OSM. Well yes that is one opinion but we do have a range of opinions in OpenStreetMap and from the number of buildings that have already

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2020-01-17 Thread Tim Elrick
Hi John, As stated before, I don't consider the Microsoft dataset being close to the minimum quality requirements I would expect from any automated building entry into OSM. If you just want to display buildings, you can download the MS dataset and use it right away - no need to import into

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2020-01-17 Thread john whelan
>first, to add missing buildings (if it were just for this purpose we could also use the much bigger Microsoft dataset) I can't resist. Does this infer that for parts of the country without Stat Can data we are happy to import Microsoft dataset buildings as is? Or would we wish to wait until we

Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

2020-01-17 Thread James
I could set the task up to be seen only by validators+ which I then can sst individual users as validators On Thu., Jan. 16, 2020, 10:10 p.m. Tim Elrick, wrote: > I would assume in most cases the imported building footprint will be > more precise than existing data. For me, this would be a