Santa Barbara Address and Building Import

For features in the city of Santa Barbara and Santa Barbara County, California, the sources for those which have been imported into OSM (or converted from a non-OSM format) are listed below:

• Addresses: OpenAddresses
• Buildings: Microsoft Building Footprints

Right to Use

• Openaddresses.io: BSD 3-clause
• Microsoft US Building Footprints: ODbL

Data Quality

• Openaddresses.io: mostly complete with individual units, accurate and within plot lines, no businesses or names included.
• Microsoft US Building Footprints: mostly complete but not highly accurate, no building parts / heights either. The rectification algorithm often fails on complex shaped mansions.

Interested Parties

• Participation follows initiative, especially where areas are micromapped (i.e. land cover added).

To Do

• Continued import of buildings and addresses from the City to the rest of the County

Status

• Most buildings from Goleta to Montecito and addresses from Goleta to Ventura have been imported, and duplicates / overlapping ways have been removed (ca. 2017)
• Many missing sheds and small roofs have been added such as above parking spots or as building parts.
• Many buildings and addresses in the Goleta area have since been merged (selection of 1 building + 1 address within iD -> right click -> Merge).
• Many building features have been subdivided into building parts / businesses according to address:unit.
• For these geometries, a web-search of each address can be performed via ddg.gg where the official domain name is verified.
• An official website may be documented / added on the basis of current address, and/or name from street-level imagery, among other information.
• Many building projections have since been redrawn by hand using edge-detection / gradient-descent from Digital Globe Premium imagery.
• Many new buildings have since been erected and are yet to be imaged. Significant housing and development continues for the entire SB area.