Re: [Talk-ca] counting buildings - ( 2020 project ) - help please.

On Sep 12, 2018, at 11:06 AM, john whelan wrote: > One of the requirements was to create something that did not require an > Internet connection OK, yet I had no way of knowing that from your post. Though, that is an "interesting" requirement for a crowdsourced, Internet-based map database.

Re: [Talk-ca] counting buildings - ( 2020 project ) - help please.

One of the requirements was to create something that did not require an Internet connection or a Ph.D. in OpenStreetMap jargon. Another was the ability to combine the information with other data. As I mentioned I'm after end users rather than OSM technically knowledgeable ones. Thank you for

Re: [Talk-ca] counting buildings - ( 2020 project ) - help please.

Whew, seems like overkill. Try "overpass turbo" (OT) for such queries. Here is a sample, and the query language (OverPass QL) is text-based and OSM-friendly, as it uses the tags you're searching for: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/BQ6 When it dialogs that the query will return a lot of data,

[Talk-ca] counting buildings - ( 2020 project ) - help please.

One problems with this mapping project is it is difficult to see how many have been mapped. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada/Building_Canada_2020 So I've been playing. The .OSM data structure does not lend it self easily to this sort of thing. In particular you don't know