Re: [Talk-us] [Imports-us] Baltimore Building Outlines Import

2013-05-05 Thread Phil! Gold
* Elliott Plack [2013-05-04 09:43 -0700]: > Building type: you might be able to tell if its classified > residential or commercial or whatever from the GIS data. Spatial queries should be able to tell that in combination with the landuse shapefiles ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Baltimore,_

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports-us] Baltimore Building Outlines Import

2013-05-04 Thread Jason Remillard
Hi Matthew, The import proposal looks good! I downloaded the tar file and looked at the first OSM file. - There are some duplicate buildings. They were probably added while you have been processing the data. You may want to proceed anyway and fix them after if it will be a lot of work redoing the

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports-us] Baltimore Building Outlines Import

2013-05-04 Thread Paul Norman
Thanks for the proposal, I have a few comments > From: Matthew Petroff [mailto:openstreet...@mpetroff.net] > Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 9:03 PM > Subject: [Imports-us] Baltimore Building Outlines Import > > Using QGIS, I assigned approximate street addresses to each building > using a parcel map

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports-us] Baltimore Building Outlines Import

2013-05-04 Thread Elliott Plack
Matthew emailed me last night about this, and I'm excited to see him take over. I hadn't thought to pull the addresses from the parcel network. I can also confirm the data is public domain. I work closely with the city GIS team in my work at Baltimore County. Matthew: since your doing address

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports-us] Baltimore Building Outlines Import

2013-05-04 Thread Clifford Snow
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Matthew Petroff wrote: > > Using QGIS, I assigned approximate street addresses to each building using > a > parcel map [3] and used the field calculator to clean up the labels and > remove > abbreviations. In addition, I removed all data that intersected with > exis