I discovered that shop=vacant has over 6,000 tags. That actually makes sense. The building is vacant with a for lease sign. Many are former shops for example Blockbuster.
Clifford On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Clifford Snow <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Elliott Plack <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> If I were to classify "abandoned" buildings myself, I'd go by the wiki >> definition which would include buildings that "have fallen into serious >> disrepair and which could only be put back into operation with expensive >> effort" [2]. However, if we even include the data, it would only be for >> buildings the city has identified as vacant. >> >> You've raised a good point that it'd be hard to mechanically determine >> whether a building is abandoned or disused. I'll have to check if the >> dataset is only for truly abandoned buildings like the ones above. >> > > Interesting thread. There are 960+ abandoned building tags according to > taginfo. But only 60 with either vacant or empty. My little town has a > number of vacant buildings. It might be interesting to see them on a map. > There maybe a small handful of abandoned by the definition of serious > disrepair. I suspect a search of tax records to show who owns the property > might be a clue. > > I have be in contact with the city about importing their building data. I > will remember to discuss their definition of vacant vs. abandoned. > > Clifford > > > -- > @osm_seattle > osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us > OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch > -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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