NYC OSM buildings import
What?
Importing NYC's official building and address data into OSM
How?
Why?
How can you get involved?
How can you get involved?
It's complicated.
Why should you use the OSM data?
A ton of effort has gone into cleaning it up
Merged buildings with addresses
Merged buildings with addresses
Addresses have been made consistent
(street names were not uniform, ranges in addresses dropped)
Merged buildings with addresses
Addresses have been made consistent
(street names were not uniform, ranges in addresses dropped)
Other inconsistencies removed
(buildings with 0 height, weird triangular buildings, ...)
Merged buildings with addresses
Addresses have been made consistent
(street names were not uniform, ranges in addresses dropped)
Other inconsistencies removed
(buildings with 0 height, weird triangular buildings, ...)
more in the GitHub issues
How can you use the OSM data?
<union>
<query type="way">
<has-kv k="building"/>
<bbox-query {{bbox}}/>
</query>
<query type="relation">
<has-kv k="building"/>
<bbox-query {{bbox}}/>
</query>
</union>
<union>
<item/>
<recurse type="down"/>
</union>
<print/>
