City of Virginia Beach Buildings/Address Import
This project aims to import Virginia Beach, Va buildings from a city-sourced GIS file.
Goals
Import Virginia Beach's building footprints dataset to help Virginia mappers create a more effective map. Get highly accurate, city-wide address data.
Schedule
TBD
Import Data
Background
Data source site: Virginia GIS office provided the building footprints and address shapeless via open data portal
ODbL Compliance verified: yes
OSM Data Files
Initial Pass at OSM files here
Import Type
This import will be done in sections (block groups) with JOSM
Data Preparation
See GitHub Repo for additional details on this import -> Virginia Beach, Va Repo
Changeset Tags
I will set source= Virginia Beach GIS
Conflation
Since the OSM data is being hand-imported in manageable chunks, conflation with existing data will be handled manually in JOSM. I will prefer existing OSM data and tags over the imported data and will try to apply addressing tags from the Virginia Beach data as correctly as possible.