Jonah Adkins

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Dare County OSM Imports

13 Aug 2017 » osm

Dare County, North Carolina GIS department has provided building footprints for importing into OpenStreetMap. The data is provided as is, with compatible license.


Import Notes

18,430 Total Buildings

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

A workable building polygon file was created from provided building footprints and a parcel polygon shapefile. Attributes from the parcels including address and parcel use were transferred over to the building footprints.

Imported buildings have the following building= tags populated:

BuildingCountNote
apartments220 
church (building = yes)36amenity = place_of_worship
commercial317 
hotel (building = yes)131tourism = hotel
industrial56 
public104 
residential16,481 
retail187 
school8 
shed327 
yes750