Have a look at the wiki page I referred to. Further discussions will be more 
easy and focused

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From: John Whelan <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2019 2:50:29 PM
To: James <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel @jfd553 <[email protected]>; Talk-CA OpenStreetMap 
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Importing buildings in Canada

I think the first problem to be addressed is the presence or absence of a local 
community.

In the north we have few mappers but lots of interested agencies and people in 
seeing the buildings imported.

Montreal I think is under control.  Toronto is in the process of sorting itself 
out but I'm unclear how much territory the Toronto local group covers.

Vancouver should be big enough to support a local group.  As should Calgary and 
Edmonton.

Ottawa is complete as is Gatineau.

It's the smaller cities and regions that would be my concern.  Often it will be 
by chance that two or more mappers meet occasionally.

So step one can we list the local groups?

I also have a problem with what happens if two people agree but haven't done 
any mapping are they a local group?

Step two to me would be a consensus on how to tackle those areas without a 
local group and I think Daniel's suggestion would be a way forward in this area.

Cheerio John



James wrote on 2019-12-24 1:28 PM:
wasn't there talk about this before and someone blocked it because of 
non-square buildings and the resulting discussion was that each community was 
going to decide if they want to import or not?

On Tue., Dec. 24, 2019, 1:26 p.m. Daniel @jfd553, 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Hi Group!

I am currently working on a proposal which, I hope, will bring consensus among 
the community and relaunch the import of ODB footprints (StatCan). The proposal 
should be ready in a few weeks, or sooner.



In the meantime, I suggest to all those who are interested to take note of the 
observations I made regarding these data. This information can be found in the 
OSM wiki (1). According to OSM import guideline requirements, it describes the 
data to import. At the same time, I updated the Canada-federal section of the 
Data Potential wiki page (2).



I will be offline in the next few days, so if you have any questions/comments, 
please be patient :-)



Daniel



1 - https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/The_Open_Database_of_Buildings

2 - 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potential_Datasources#Federal_.28Open_Government.29

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