All - The city of Seattle has recently granted permission to use data found at data.seattle.gov in OpenStreetMap. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors#City_of_Seattle.2C_Washington
A group of Seattle OSM'ers (led by Cliff Snow) are getting together to discuss the methods for importing and double-checking the information. http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Seattle/events/93524692/ The current plan is to focus on addresses and building outlines. Sources are currently suggested to be tagged as: source:addr=data.seattle.gov source:path=data.seattle.gov so as to accomodate other sourcing information for those points and ways, as appropriate. Data has been converted from shape to osm using pnorman's ogr2osm python scripts and some translation instructions Cliff has put together. At the meeting, we will discuss concerns about the import, methods of curating the data, how to divide up the work, and how to properly track data created through this import. A cursory review of the data has identified a variety of issues: e.g. non-existent addresses, misplaced addresses, including buildings that no longer exist, etc. So, we are not planning to just do a big bulk dump of information. More news to follow. Please advise of any concerns. Thanks, Jeff -- Jeff Meyer Global World History Atlas www.gwhat.org [email protected] 206-676-2347
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