On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Ian Dees <[email protected]> wrote:
> > To clarify what I meant about parcel data: I'm assuming you mean parcels in > terms of household property boundaries. This data is difficult to fit into > the OSM data model because it a) updates frequently and b) has an "official" > source that is better to use than OSM. If you can extract addressing from > the parcel data then we can use it to do better geocoding, but loading OSM > with parcel data puts us closer to a "data dumping grounds" than an active, > community-built map. > > For information, in France (65 M inhabitants), we have all the tools to import parcels for about 2 thirds of the territory but we all agreed to not do this for the same reasons as listed above. Pieren
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