If imported to OSM, can we edit parcel data? Is it legally allowed for non-surveyors (in the Philippine we call them Geodetic Engineers) to change parcel geometry and attributes?
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Russ Nelson <r...@cloudmade.com> wrote: > > On Feb 17, 2009, at 7:00 PM, Christopher Schmidt wrote: >> >> cases, it has addresses which can be used for geocoding > > For completely unrelated reasons (I was searching for an unfinished > railroad and was looking to see if it existed in any property lines) > (no, it didn't) (sigh) I had a copy of the parcel data for Oneida > County, New York. It has the address in a fixed field, along with the > name of the road. It would be trivially easy to set addr:housenumber > and addr:street for the parcel. > > The trouble is that I don't know where in that parcel the building is > to be found. And some parcels are quite strangely shaped, e.g. two > squares overlapping only at a corner. And then the street name and > the TIGER street name vary wildly, e.g. tiger:name_base="State Highway > 13" and ocgov:loc_st_nam=Nys Rt 13" (or in another record, "State > Route 13 N"). The latter only matters if the property is on a corner. > > I've noticed that the road is considered to be "unowned", so there's > only one way connecting those nodes. Thus, I'll look for the nodes > with only one way, and tag the center of those nodes with the > address. Might employ some heuristic to guess which road if multiple > roads are found. > > -- > Russ Nelson - http://community.cloudmade.com/blog - > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:RussNelson > r...@cloudmade.com - http://openstreetmap.org/user/RussNelson > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- cheers, maning ------------------------------------------------------ "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk