Ok so I did a dump of our data at massDOT and put some rough stuff up on drop box for people to take a look at, we have: All the roads http://dl.dropbox.com/u/37626989/roadinv.zip Exits: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/37626989/exits.zip Mile points: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/37626989/mp.zip Equation routes: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/37626989/equationroutes.zip I can give some more details about documentation and start to figure out what we'll actually do with this stuff tomorrow.
Also I mentioned this to Greg when I talked to him on the phone earlier and thought I'd give the link. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics puts out a fantastic National Transportation Atlas Database that is all available online that our office tends to use quite a bit, http://www.bts.gov/publications/national_transportation_atlas_database/2011/ ------------------- Calvin Metcalf Massachusetts Department of Transportation Office of Transportation Planning 10 Park Plaza Suite 4150 Boston, MA 02116 Office 617-973-7027 [email protected] >-----Original Message----- >From: Greg Troxel [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 5:31 PM >To: Metcalf, Calvin >Cc: Greg Troxel; Lars Ahlzen; Bill Ricker >Subject: Re: [Imports] Massachusetts road data > > >I'm one of the more or less active mappers in mass; there are a few of >us that know each other. I'll second what Serge said about us being >really appreciative of high-quality data being available under a free >license. Despite the one-way hiccup, the data in mass for osm is very >good due to getting the DOT road data from massgis. It might >be best to >chat on the phone about your goals and how things might work - I'm >assuming you are at work normal hours and perhaps I could call you >Monday? I've copied a few others that I know are also interested in >improving OSM content in Mass. > >As for imagery, basically OSM does not import imagery, but mappers use >imagery extensively and people also want to view gpx tracks etc. with >either OSM tiles or imagery as the background. So having it >available >as some sort of WMS/TMS so it can be hooked into the editor >would be the >top of the wishlist. > >There's also the issue of DOT finding errors and/or missing roads from >OSM. I realize with CC-BY-SA, ODBL, and probably wanting to have >professionally curated data you may not want to take our data - but it >could be used to essentially generate a list of things to look at. >(I live in Stow, and I think found only one error.) > >Thanks, >Greg > _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
