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Importing Austin buildings and address data into OpenStreetMap
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review and choose import tools #6

Closed wilsaj closed 8 years ago

wilsaj commented 9 years ago

Decide on which import tool/tools and workflows to use. Main options look to be:

JOSM

Looks to be the way almost every other city has gone about things. The JOSM conflation plugin looks great. Only downside is JOSM takes some learning and might be exclusionary due to technical and computational requirements (needs a semi-beefy laptop).

Workflow

If we use JOSM, we need to nail down specifics of a workflow for import and QA. We have data split up by census block groups and that looks reasonable for individuals to import or review QA. There are about 775 census block groups, so we'll need a way of tracking progress. Maybe a google spreadsheet? Maybe a github issue per census block? Maybe slackbot to make things interesting? The world is our OpenStreetOyster.

Web-based import tools

Early on, there was some talk of using something like osmly or to-fix. Unfortunately, neither of them will work as-is. osmly only does one polygon at a time, and we have 475k buildings to get through. to-fix is a QA tool that works with data already in OSM, so not really solving our problem. But there is value in the general idea of a newbie-friendly web-based import tool. If one can be found or built relatively quickly, that would be great.

wilsaj commented 9 years ago

Looking into using the Task Manager - it'll probably get the job done. See #10 for progress

wilsaj commented 8 years ago

Closing this out - workflow deets are on the wiki.