Jonah Adkins

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City of Virginia OSM Imports

09 Mar 2016 » osm

City of Virginia Beach, Virginia GIS department has provided building footprints and address points for importing into OpenStreetMap via their Open Data Portal. The data is provided as is, license free.

Post-Import Notes

142,154 Total Buildings

  • 115,701 Buildings (!= shed/garage) with Addresses - 81%!!

Imports will be done through the dedicated user account jonahadkins_vabeach_import and will be done through OSM Import Guidelines - See Wiki

Imported building swill have the following building= tags populated:

BuildingCount
apartments11,819
church221
commercial4,736
garage9,666
house97,267
industrial327
residential3,286
school52
shed7,938
static_caravan2,197
yes4,652