Albuquerque OpenStreetMap Building import processing

Overview

a Python >=3.6 script for processing Microsoft buildings footprints for bulk import into OpenStreetMap.

Methodology

Buildings are grouped in census tracts by census blocks if the census block does not already contain OpenStreetMap user contributions of buildings where building="yes" (as of February 11 2019). Current OSM building data is held in the abq_building.geojson file. Census blocks are held in the blocks_wgs84.geojson file. The Microsoft building footprint data for New Mexico can be downloaded here.

C/C++ dependencies

• libspatialindex
• libffi
• yajl

Python

Python dependencies are managed with pipenv after cloning the repo run:

pipenv install

libaries used

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Docker

A Dockerfile is provided for running the script in a container to keep host dependencies clean, this is probably the easiest way to run the script. Requires a volume argument to save data on host system.

git clone 
cd abq-buildings-process
docker build . -t mapabq-building-split
docker run -v /path/to/out/folder:/out mapabq-building-split