OpenStreetMap
Another idea for future imports of buildings
Posted by Yury Yatsynovich on 27 November 2020 in English.Buildings in cities are often aligned along the streets, so, when squaring them, it also makes sense to align them along corresponding streets. To do: add a step to the data-preparing script that finds clusters of buildings based on their locations and azimuth to the north of buildings’ walls.
Discussion
Comment from Alan Bragg on 28 November 2020 at 18:59
Good idea. Kind of like selecting two nodes on a street plus all the buildings you want to align with the street and then “Orthogonalize Shape” (Q in JOSM).
Comment from Yury Yatsynovich on 28 November 2020 at 21:40
Exactly, Alan!:) The idea emerged when I was importing buildings in Fremont, CA – it was taking a while to find all buildings in neighborhoods that have the same orientation to apply “Q” (as in JOSM) to them. And then I realized that the clustering technique could do it for me.