Please ensure you are logged in under a dedicated import account with a user name ending in `_sonomaimport`. If you haven’t contributed to a building import project before, please choose a task in one of the more sparsely populated parts of the county.
- Open JOSM and enable remote control.
- Click "Start Editor" to load the overall task area in JOSM. (You can use iD to validate a task, but *do not* use it to complete a task. Ask a project coordinator if you need help with JOSM.)
- Click the Tasking Manager link under "Specific Task Information" to load the import task’s data, which contains imported buildings from Sonoma County.
- Enable your aerial imagery of choice in JOSM, and offset it ("Imagery"→"New offset") to match the Sonoma County data.
- Spot-check the added building ways’ geometries:
- If the actual building has been demolished, delete the way, or replace the building=* tag with a demolished:building=* tag to prevent it from being recreated based on outdated imagery.
- If the actual building has a new addition, and neither the CAGIS data nor OSM include that addition, extend the way to include the new addition.
- Do not draw your own buildings from scratch as part of this project. If a building within your task area is visible in aerial imagery but isn’t in either the CAGIS data or OSM, you don’t have to add the building right now, because we plan to conflate with a newer CAGIS dataset in a later phase of the import.
- If many buildings are missing, such as in a newly built subdivision, add a note so we can revisit it later.
- Spot-check the added ways’ addresses:
- If the street name in the address doesn’t match the name of a nearby roadway, note the street name in the task comments (not the changeset comments) for further review.
- Run the JOSM validator. Ignore any warnings about landuse areas. Focus on the following warnings and errors that may be related to the buildings you have added:
- Crossing buildings
- Self-intersecting ways
- Building inside building
- Duplicate housenumber
- Housenumber without street
- TODO: Merge the imported buildings layer into the OSM Data layer by right-clicking on the layer.
- TODO: Run the JOSM validator again.
- TODO: Resolve duplicate buildings/addresses with utilsplugin2 and the Replace Geometry command, OR the conflate plugin.
- To use the utilsplugin, select the worse building, hold shift, and select the better building. Then press ctrl+shift+G or More Tools > Replace Geometry.
- To use the conflate plugin, Configure it, select Reference (imported) geometry by going to Edit > Search and searching for all `building=* type:way new` data. Click Reference: Freeze. Then, select Subject (original) geometry by going to Edit > Search and searching for all `building=* type:way -new` geometry. Click Subject: Freeze. Finally, you probably want to use Simple, Disambiguiating, Standard <2,ReplaceGeometry,MergeTags.
- TODO: Run the JOSM validator again until all the building-related changes seem fine. Don't bother yourself with issues unrelated to the building/address import.
- Upload the data with the following information:
- Comment: `Imported addresses and building footprints from Sonoma County #sonomaimport`
