Jonah Adkins

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City of Suffolk OSM Imports

11 Nov 2015 » osm

City of Suffolk, Virginia GIS department has provided building footprints and address points for importing into OpenStreetMap after a request via email. The data was graciously provided as is, license free, and at no cost by the GIS department.

Post-Import Notes

42,103 Total Buildings

  • 24,912 Buildings with Addresses - 59% !!
  • 952 Buildings with Names - 2% :(
  • 268 Buildings with Amenity= tags - 0.6% :((

Imports were done through the dedicated user account jonahadkins_suffolk_import and were done through OSM Import Guidelines - See Wiki

Imported buildings have the following building= tags populated:

BuildingCount
chruch234
commercial2,174
hotel7
industrial95
public157
residential23,546
retail37
school102
shed243
university9
yes15,499