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In Openstreetmap US, California Fresno area, a controversial [0] series of imports of legal property records (aka PARCEL) are mixed in with other POLYGONS. Many various POLYGON in Fresno now share the tag landuse=residential, both the PARCEL legal records and real building footprint POLYGON, as well as various others. After reviewing the wiki talk page, relevant discussions, and discussing online briefly, this post looks at the OSM context; estimates the extent of these imports by examining similar, nearby areas; compares the OSM records to actual current PARCEL records; proposes a deletion criteria and finally, examines the extent of the proposed deletion.

[0] changeset/26356220 * changeset/26357831
OSM Wiki on Parcels -LINK- -TALK-


Context: Fresno County is big — but the real-world residential areas are confined almost entirely to the City of Fresno.

fresno_ccd_context

fresno_landuse_context

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NLCD 06 mrlc.gov


Q. What tag 'landuse' values are present in County Subdivision Fresno?

 151670 | residential
   6644 | commercial
   6463 | NULL
   3859 | industrial
    706 | farm
    574 | vineyard
    498 | orchard
    453 | meadow
    109 | garages

less than 100: 
  basin,farmyard,recreation_ground,grass,farmland,religious,cemetery,retail,
  quarry,reservoir,railway,landfill,construction,institutional

Next, expand the query to the entire five-county region

Q. What tag 'landuse' values are present in the five county area 
-- Kings, Madera, Tulare, Kern, Fresno

 207902 | NULL
 203000 | residential
  11697 | commercial
   7054 | farm
   6679 | orchard
   5941 | industrial
   5251 | vineyard
   5029 | meadow
   2475 | farmland
   1980 | farmyard
    885 | grass
    
less than 300: 
   garages,cemetery,recreation_ground,basin,quarry,reservoir,religious,retail
  forest,scrub,military,landfill,railway,pond,greenhouse_horticulture,construction

So, 150,000 of the 200,000 landuse=residential tagged POLYGONs in a five-county area, are in just the Fresno City CCD.

Attribution On inspection, a large number of likely PARCEL records in Fresno, carry an attribution tag with one of several recognizable values: Caltrans (4), FMMP (3) and Fresno_County_GIS.

example data:
 "type"=>"multipolygon", "landuse"=>"vineyard", "attribution"=>"Fresno_County_GIS"
 "crop"=>"field_cropland", "type"=>"multipolygon", "landuse"=>"farm", "attribution"=>"Fresno_County_GIS"
 "crop"=>"field_cropland", "type"=>"multipolygon", "landuse"=>"farm", "attribution"=>"Fresno_County_GIS"
 "crop"=>"native_pasture", "type"=>"multipolygon", "landuse"=>"meadow", "attribution"=>"Fresno_County_GIS"
 "crop"=>"native_pasture", "type"=>"multipolygon", "landuse"=>"meadow", "attribution"=>"Fresno_County_GIS"
 "type"=>"multipolygon", "landuse"=>"vineyard", "attribution"=>"Fresno_County_GIS"
 "crop"=>"field_cropland", "type"=>"multipolygon", "landuse"=>"farm", "attribution"=>"Fresno_County_GIS"
 "type"=>"multipolygon", "landuse"=>"vineyard", "attribution"=>"Fresno_County_GIS"
 "crop"=>"field_cropland", "type"=>"multipolygon", "landuse"=>"farm", "attribution"=>"Fresno_County_GIS"
 "type"=>"multipolygon", "trees"=>"orange_trees", "landuse"=>"orchard", "attribution"=>"Fresno_County_GIS"
 "type"=>"multipolygon", "landuse"=>"residential", "lot_type"=>"single family residential properties", "other_use"=>"S", "attribution"=>"Fresno_County_GIS", "primary_use"=>"000", "secondary_use"=>"VLM"
 "type"=>"multipolygon", "wood"=>"mixed", "landuse"=>"farm", "natural"=>"wood", "attribution"=>"Fresno_County_GIS"
 "type"=>"multipolygon", "landuse"=>"vineyard", "attribution"=>"Fresno_County_GIS"
 "type"=>"multipolygon", "landuse"=>"orchard", "attribution"=>"Fresno_County_GIS"

Detailed counts in Fresno County and the Fresno CCD

-- Fresno County:  geoid  06019 / tl_2016_us_county
241860 - all multipolygons
231624 - tag landuse
196017 - tag landuse = 'residential'
230685 - tag 'attribution'
230612 - tag 'attribution' ~* 'GIS'
----------------------------------------------------
-- Fresno CCD:   geoid   0601991080
171200 - all multipolygons
164737 - tag landuse
151670 - tag landuse = 'residential'
166163 - tag 'attribution'
166147 - tag 'attribution' ~* 'GIS'
----------------------------------------------------
-- Fresno County outside of Fresno CCD (derived)
 70660 - all multipolygons   (241860 - 171200)
 66887 - tag landuse         (231624 - 164737)
 44347 - tag landuse = 'residential'  (196017 - 151670)
 64465 - tag 'attribution' ~* 'GIS'   (230612 - 166147)
Qry - count the occurances of attribution 'GIS'   AND
  landuse = 'residential'; area Fresno County, by cousub
           name           | count  
--------------------------+--------
 Caruthers-Raisin City    |   1400
 Fresno                   | 150681
 Kerman                   |   4093
 Reedley                  |   5967
 Mendota                  |   1779
 San Joaquin-Tranquillity |   1030
 Coalinga                 |   2528
 Firebaugh                |   1152
 Orange Cove              |   1579
 Kingsburg                |   3557
 Huron                    |     87
 Fowler                   |   1527
 Sierra                   |    963
 Parlier-Del Rey          |   2633
 Sanger                   |   7796
 Riverdale                |   1208
 Laton                    |    599
 Selma                    |   6221


Compare current parcel data (670 records) to OSM multipolygon with tag landuse=residential (350 records), in a sample Fresno blockgroup ('060190045051')
BBOX="-119.7994,36.8084,-119.7903,36.8229"

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m_p_fresno_bg_0

p_fresno_bg_0

m_fresno_bg_0


This looks promising: take all OSM multipolygons marked landuse=residential, then remove WHERE tag attribution exists AND tag building does not exist …

osm_fresnocs_mpoly_landuse_res_attr0

osm_fresnocs_mpoly_landuse_res1

osm_fresnocs_mpoly_landuse_res0

Some Links:
https://help.github.com/articles/mapping-geojson-files-on-github/

fresno_parcels_osm_ex1

-- County of Fresno, subdivision Fresno geoid = '0601991080'
--  multipolygons m is a raw dot-pbf import of OSM

-- Qry - Show all landuse tags and a count of occurances
--   area: Fresno CCD
--
select count(*), all_tags -> 'landuse'  
FROM multipolygons m,  tl_2016_06_cousub cs
WHERE
    cs.geoid = '0601991080'  AND
    st_intersects( m.wkb_geometry, cs.geom) 
GROUP BY all_tags -> 'landuse' 
ORDER BY  all_tags -> 'landuse';

/* count |   landuse tag    
--------+-------------------
     48 | basin
     11 | cemetery
   6644 | commercial
      1 | construction
    706 | farm
     24 | farmland
     43 | farmyard
    109 | garages
     28 | grass
   3859 | industrial
      1 | institutional
      1 | landfill
    453 | meadow
    498 | orchard
      2 | quarry
      1 | railway
     37 | recreation_ground
     19 | religious
      2 | reservoir
 151670 | residential
      6 | retail
    574 | vineyard
   6463 | 
*/

--=====================================================
--
--  Kern County - FIPS 029
--  Fresno County - FIPS 019
--

-- Qry - Show CCDs and a count of tag landuse = 'residential'
--   area: Fresno County, Kern County
--
select count(*), (cs.geoid, cs.name, cs.countyfp)
FROM multipolygons m, tl_2016_06_cousub cs
WHERE
    cs.countyfp IN ( '019', '029' )  AND
    all_tags -> 'landuse' = 'residential'  AND
    st_intersects( m.wkb_geometry, cs.geom) 
GROUP BY  (cs.geoid, cs.name, cs.countyfp)
ORDER BY   (cs.geoid, cs.name, cs.countyfp) ;

/*
   1408 | (0601990390,"Caruthers-Raisin City",019)
   2558 | (0601990530,Coalinga,019)
   1170 | (0601991000,Firebaugh,019)
   1541 | (0601991060,Fowler,019)
 151670 | (0601991080,Fresno,019)
           ...............
     60 | (0602990130,Arvin-Lamont,029)
    724 | (0602990180,Bakersfield,029)
          ................
   1096 | (0602993320,Tehachapi,029)
    188 | (0602993570,Wasco,029)
    715 | (0602993635,"West Kern",029)
*/

--==================================================
--
-- Qry - Show all landuse tags and a count of occurances
--   area: Fresno County, Kern County
----
select count(*), all_tags -> 'landuse'  
FROM multipolygons m, tl_2016_06_cousub cs
WHERE
    cs.countyfp IN ( '019', '029' )  AND
    st_intersects( m.wkb_geometry, cs.geom) 
GROUP BY all_tags -> 'landuse' 
ORDER BY  all_tags -> 'landuse';

/* count |  landuse tag        
--------+-------------------------
      1 | aerodrome
     83 | basin
     54 | cemetery
  11107 | commercial
      1 | conservation
      1 | construction
   5160 | farm
   2426 | farmland
   1034 | farmyard
      5 | forest
    268 | garages
    885 | grass
      1 | greenhouse_horticulture
   5830 | industrial
      1 | institutional
      3 | landfill
   3318 | meadow
      4 | military
   6519 | orchard
     45 | quarry
      3 | railway
     86 | recreation_ground
     19 | religious
     19 | reservoir
 201341 | residential
     13 | retail
     16 | scrub
   5225 | vineyard
 203195 | 
*/

--===================================================
--
-- Qry - Show all landuse tags and a count of occurances
--   area: Bakersfield city, Kern County (similar to Fresno city )
--

select count(*), all_tags -> 'landuse'  
FROM multipolygons m, tl_2016_06_place p
WHERE
    p.namelsad = 'Bakersfield city'  AND
    st_intersects( m.wkb_geometry, p.geom) 
GROUP BY all_tags -> 'landuse' 
ORDER BY  all_tags -> 'landuse';

/* count |   landuse tag
--------+-------------------
      4 | cemetery
    687 | commercial
     78 | farm
      3 | farmland
     23 | farmyard
    836 | grass
    261 | industrial
     52 | meadow
     18 | orchard
      1 | railway
      8 | recreation_ground
    710 | residential
     16 | scrub
 119669 | 
*/

--===================================================
--
-- Qry - Show all landuse tags and a count of occurances
--   area: Fresno City
--
--
select count(*), all_tags -> 'landuse'  
FROM multipolygons m, tl_2016_06_place p
WHERE
    p.namelsad = 'Fresno city'  AND
    st_intersects( m.wkb_geometry, p.geom) 
GROUP BY all_tags -> 'landuse' 
ORDER BY  all_tags -> 'landuse';

/* count |   landuse tag
--------+-------------------
     25 | basin
      5 | cemetery
   5523 | commercial
      1 | construction
     67 | farm
      4 | farmland
      4 | farmyard
     65 | garages
     12 | grass
   2410 | industrial
      1 | landfill
    268 | meadow
     45 | orchard
      1 | railway
     26 | recreation_ground
     19 | religious
      1 | reservoir
 105930 | residential
      5 | retail
     15 | vineyard
   5192 | 
*/

GEOSS XIII

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The Group On Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) plenary conference was held in November of 2016.

2017 Work Plan -LINK-

Earth System Grid -PAGE-

 

geo-xiii-2-inf-03_geoss_components

OSM Software Meta

There is a non-obvious relationship of big engines like Mapnik, and the rest of Openstreetmap activity. While building OSGeo-Live v10, I am trying to make sense of “the whole of openstreetmap software” — to make a map of it, so to speak.. but a map of logical groupings, by purpose, and weighted by popularity and utility. Server-side to client-side is represented as one spectrum, right to left.. and then separate activity classes, like the difference between data pipelines for maintenance, rendering, and more recently, analysis.. then the nouns of the actual software projects, some of which are quite large, like Mapnik.

base_osm_sfwrF

related links:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Develop#How_the_pieces_fit_together

Mapnik: main site; OSM wiki page;wiki; tutorial; repo; python interfaces; python-mapnik quickstart

OSMIUM repo; pyosmium; and other OSM Code
 
osm2pgsql repo and a tutorial
 
Imposm3 repo and tutorial

OSM Node One http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1

OSM dot-org Internal Git https://git.openstreetmap.org/

OSM Packaging in Debian -blends- -ref-

OSM TagInfo language example

 
US TIGER Data

A representative example of US Census Bureau TIGER data, integrated into OSM. -Here-

 
OSMBuildings

Sonoma State University in osmbuildings

osmlab labuildings gitter channel

OSM Wiki – Multipoygons -link-

 
OSM-Analytics

>-here- presented by mikel maron and jennings anderson at SOTM-US in this video Odd thing here may be, that the “unit of analysis is the tile” .. so, in a twist, the delivery of the graphics, becomes the unit of analytics. MapBox blog post on osm-qa tiles

 
Overpass-Turbo

Openstreetmap Wiki Overpass-turbo

OSM Future Directions have been brewing for a long time

osm2vectortiles osm2vectortiles-logo

 
Other Notable Resources
 
3rd Party OSM WMTS OWS Service via MapProxy

Wikimedia Foundation Maps https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps

Omniscale Gmbh and Co. KG, OSM https://osm.omniscale.de

Overpress Express http://overpass-turbo.eu/

OSM Software Watchlist -here-

OSM Geometry Inspector -link-

MapBox Mapping -Repo- -Wiki-

OpenSolarMap -hackpad- http://opensolarmap.org -Github-
http://2016.stateofthemap.org/2016/opensolarmap-crowdsourcing-and-machine-learning-to-classify-roofs/
 

OSM Basemaps -LINK-

OSGeo-Live 9.5 Released

osgeolive_menu6 The OSGeo Community has announced immediate availability of the OSGeo-Live reference distribution of geospatial open-source software, version 9.5. OSGeo-Live is available now as both 32-bit and 64-bit .iso images, as well as a 64-bit Virtual Machine (VM), ready to run. Users across the globe can depend on OSGeo-Live, which includes overview and introductory examples for every major software package on the disk, translated into twelve languages. LINK

New Applications:
Project Jupyter (formerly the IPython Notebook) with examples
istSOS – Sensor Observation Service
NASA World Wind – Desktop Virtual Globe

Twenty-two geospatial programs have been updated to newer versions, including:

QGIS 2.14 LTR with more than one hundred new features added or improved since the last QGIS LTR release (version 2.8), sponsored by dozens of geospatial data providers, private sector companies and public sector governing bodies around the world.
MapServer 7.0 with major new features, including complex filtering being pushed to the database backends, labeling performance and the ability to render non-latin scripts per layer. See the complete list of new features
Cesium JavaScript library for world-class 3D globes and maps
PostGIS 2.2 with optional SFCGAL geometry engine
GeoNetwork 3.0

Analytics and Geospatial Data Science:
R geostatistics
Python reference libraries including Iris, SciPy, PySAL, geoPandas

About OSGeo-Live

OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable USB flash drive, DVD and Virtual Machine, pre-installed with robust open source geospatial software, which can be trialled without installing any software.

• Over 50 quality geospatial Open Source applications installed and pre-configured
• Free world maps and sample datasets
• Project Overview and step-by-step Quickstart for each application
• Lightning presentation of all applications, along with speaker’s script
• Overviews of key OGC standards
• Translations to multiple languages
• Based upon the rock-solid Lubuntu 14.04 LTS GNU/Linux distribution, combined with the light-weight LXDE desktop interface for ease of use.

Homepage: http://live.osgeo.org
Download details: http://live.osgeo.org/en/download.html
Post release glitches collected here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc/Errata/9.5

Winter California 2015

For those that have been following the Climate Change story over the years, this satellite imagery tells a story quite vividly.. no modelling uncertainty involved.

ca-feb2015-noaa-viz

AmpCamp 2014

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BDAS  the Berkeley Data Analytics Stack

At a minimum, suffice it to say I participated online in roughly twelve hours of lecture and lab on Nov 20 and 21, 2014 at AmpCamp 5 (I also attended one in Fall 2012). I put an emphasis on python, IPython Notebook, and SQL.

Once again this year, the camp mechanics went very smoothly — readable and succinct online exercises; Spark docs; Spark python, called pyspark is advancing, although some interfaces may not be available to python yet; Spark SQL appears to be useable.

To setup on my own Linux box, I unzipped the following files:
ampcamp5-usb.zip ampcamp-pipelines.zip training-downloads.zip

The resulting directories provided a pre-built Spark 1.1
Using Scala version 2.10.4 (OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM, Java 1.7.0_65)

The Lab exercises are almost all available as both Scala and python. Tools to do the first labs:

$SPARK_HOME/bin/spark-shell  $SPARK_HOME/bin/pyspark

and for extra practice

$SPARK_HOME/bin/spark-submit  $SPARK_HOME/bin/run-example

IPython Notebook

An online teaching assistant (TA) suggested a command line to launch the Notebook – here are my notes:

##-- TA suggestion
IPYTHON_OPTS="notebook --pylab inline" ./bin/pyspark --master "local[4]"

##-- a server already setup with a Notebook, options
--matplotlib inline --ip=192.168.1.200 --no-browser --port=8888

##-- COMBINE
IPYTHON_OPTS="notebook --matplotlib inline --ip=192.168.1.200 --no-browser --port=8888" $SPARK_HOME/bin/pyspark --master "local[4]"

The IPython Notebook worked ! Lots of conveniences, interactivity and viz potential immediately available against the pyspark environment. I created several Notebooks in short order, to test and explore, for example SQL.

The SQL exercise reads data from a format new to me, called Parquet

 
Part 1.2

After rest and recuperation, I wanted to try python in the almost-ready Spark 1.2 branch. It turned out to build and run easily. First get the spark code:

 https://github.com/apache/spark/tree/branch-1.2

make sure maven is installed on your system, then run

./make-distribution.sh

. Afterwards, I set $SPARK_HOME to this directory, and launched IPython Notebook again. All the examples and experiments I had built worked without modification ! Success.

Other Links

http://databricks.com/blog/2014/03/26/spark-sql-manipulating-structured-data-using-spark-2.html
http://spark-summit.org/2014/training
https://github.com/amplab-extras

http://www.planetscala.com/

experimental
https://github.com/ooyala/spark-jobserver

JSONb First Looks

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PostgreSQL 9.4 beta 3 on Linux

-- Simple JSON/JSONb compare, by Oleg
-- json: text storage, as is
-- jsonb: whitespace dissolved, no duplicate keys (last in wins), keys sorted
SELECT 
  '{"c":0,   "a":2, "a":1}'::json,
  '{"c":0,   "a":2, "a":1}'::jsonb;

          json           |      jsonb       
-------------------------+------------------
 {"c":0,   "a":2, "a":1} | {"a": 1, "c": 0}
(1 row)


-- emit JSON text from Census corpus
--
SELECT json_agg(row_to_json(p)) from 
(  
  select gid,fullname,'feat' as ftype from tiger_data.ca_featnames 
  where fullname ~ '^Az' ) as p;

          json_agg  (formatting added) 
-------------------------------------------
[ 
  {"gid":5048,"fullname":"Aztec Way","ftype":"feat"},
  {"gid":9682,"fullname":"Azalea Ct","ftype":"feat"},
    ...
  {"gid":4504601,"fullname":"Azure Pl","ftype":"feat"}
]

##--  return a dict with metadata fields, and an array of dict
select row_to_json(a.*) from 
(select 
  'census_acs_2013' as origin,
  'ca' as state,
  'ca_featnames' as table,
  (
    SELECT json_agg(row_to_json(p)) from (  
      select gid,fullname,'feat' as ftype from tiger_data.ca_featnames 
      where fullname ~ '^Az' ) as p
  ) as rows
) a;

          row_to_json  (formatting added) 
---------------------------------------------------------
{   "origin":"census_acs_2013",
    "state":"ca",
    "table":"ca_featnames",
    "rows": [
      {"gid":5048,"fullname":"Aztec Way","ftype":"feat"},
      ...
      {"gid":4519032,"fullname":"Azalea Way","ftype":"feat"}
  ]
}

GeoPandas and NaturalEarth2 tryout

things are looking good with GeoPandas

gpd_ex0

Census Tract and 150 Meter Grids Compare

In this screenshot of Central Silicon Valley, Census tracts have been combined with a constraints layer, and then cut with a 150 meter grid in the EPSG:3310 projection. Using imputation tables and external sources, each grid cell is then computed. The result is a statistically defensible, higher-resolution and handily applicable set of grid cells.

tracts_150m_comp

ACS 5yr Viz Processing

A systematic way to choose, extract and visualize data from the massive American Community Survey 5 Year census product is a challenge. I have written python code to ingest raw inputs into tables, and a small relational engine to handle the verbose naming.

An extraction and visualization process is underway… something like the following:

0) bulk tables in all geographies for all states
1a)   define a batch of tables to extract by table_id
1b)   choose a state or territory
1c)   choose a geographic summary level

for example:

STATE  California (FIPS 06)
TABLE  ('B01001', 'SEX BY AGE', 'Age-Sex', 'Universe:  Total population')
  GEO  Tracts (Summary level 140 - State-County-Census Tract)

Once the choice is made, SQL + Python is executed, either as a standalone program in Linux or in the IPython Notebook. The code creates a working schema in PostgreSQL, copies table subsets into the new schema, and JOINs them with TIGER geometry to get spatial data. A preliminary, working version looks something like this:

domaketractstable

graphical browsing of the results in QGis:

acs5yr_viz_progress1

geographic summaries defined in ACS_2008-2012_SF_Tech_Doc:
Appendix F: ACS 5-year Summary Levels/Components for Detailed Tables