How to keep track of AI building outlines corrected (tag?)

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If I just drag/drop to align them better, I keep the source tag.

But if I’ve made major changes to the outline/nodes, I just completely remove the:

  • source=microsoft/BuildingFootprints

It isn’t even a “Microsoft” AI building anymore, but manually corrected/verified by you.

I even explained similar steps in:

About 50% of the “AI” buildings I added are just drag/dropped and OKed. (Keep source.)

A big percentage of the 50% left are then added, but modified in some major way. (Remove source.)

And the really awful AI buildings, I just completely skip (and manually draw normally later).

Note: There’s absolutely no need for someone to add 100% of all AI buildings no matter what… so this user really should be taking a little closer look at what they’re doing.

They really should only just Add the best buildings, then leave the rest for manual filling in or adjustment later.

If you use JOSM, I like to use the fantastic:

  • “Filters” feature

which lets me quickly toggle ON/OFF certain building types.

I explained that in “Tip 3” in:

so you could use a helpful JOSM Filter like:

  • -source="microsoft/BuildingFootprints"

to highlight and show you ONLY the Microsoft AI buildings, so you can easily see all the things you can focus on checking/fixing. :slight_smile:

A lot of these buildings are also just generic:

  • building=yes

So, what I like to do is tag them as more specific building types, like:

  • building=house
  • building=garage
  • building=shed

combine that with the JOSM filters again, and it lets you easily see all the “untouched”/“unknown” ones too. :slight_smile:

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