Austin, TX Buildings and addresses import project

This repository is a central place to keep code and scripts for our project to import the building footprint and address point datasets from the City of Austin into OpenStreetMap.

Our planning and import documentation is at the OSM wiki page

If you just want to help with the import, see the wiki for details on the import workflow.This repo and the instructions below are just for setting up and running the data processing scripts to prepare for the import.

Getting set up

Dependencies

First, install these dependencies:

• Make
• curl
• gdal/ogr
• nodejs and npm

OSX

Steps for installing everything on OSX. Assuming homebrew is installed and configured:

• brew install gdal
• brew install node
• npm install

Making data

There is a Makefile in this repository that manages the steps of downloading and processing the original source data for import into OSM.

To prep all the data, just run make from the root directory of this repo.