#Newport News, Virginia OSM Buildings Import

The City of Newport News GIS office graciously supplied shapefiles of building footprints and addresses upon request.

###Pre-Processing

• Building Footprints (82, 094 footprints, 53,558 addresses)

  • Existing Building Classification Codes
    • 1 - Residential
    • 2 - Commercial
    • 3 - Public
    • 4 - Miscellaneous
    • 5 - Courtyards
    • 6 - Foundations

• Resulting file was joined to address points layer and parsed address information was added to buildings file.

• Calculated Building types over to OSM Tag methodology

• Split building polygons by voting districts for manageable upload bits.

• Existing OSM footprints were updated where applicable.

Final building file attributes included:

• addr:housenumber
• addr:street (prefix + name + type + suffix)
• addr: city
• addr: state
• addr: postcode
• addr: unit
• building: (= yes industrial house, etc)
• name
• amenity

Upload / Import To OSM

Building footprint section were uploaded using JOSM with attributes mapped to the OSM Tag convention.

#ToDo

Import remaining secondary address points (33,477 Records)

Yeah Open Data!