Saikrishna, You've made some big improvements to the wiki- thank you.
I think we still have a ways to go before this is ready to be vetted in depth- we have a few big issues, as I see it (and I'm sure others will jump in with their own): 1. The license issue is still unresolved I looked at the pdf you mentioned. The distribution statement appears to be for the document itself, the "Standards and Definitions for the Driveway / Access Point Address File", rather than the actual data itself, which I can't find. I looked in the shapefile metadata xml file, and I looked at the disclaimer.txt, but neither contained what I'd consider to be any sort of definitive information on distribution. Without explicit distribution permissions, the default stance of copyright in the US is that information from a non-federal agency is subject to copyright and thus not distributable. In other words, unless they give explicit permission, the default position in the US is that all information is held under copyright and thus cannot be distributed. The rest of my feedback is on the assumption that this issue can be straightened out. If it can't be, then obviously nothing else here matters. 2. Building outlines The amount of data that a naked address point adds to OSM is very low, and the amount of data that a tagless building outline provides is very low- but combine the two and you get something of very high value, so I would encourage you to strongly pursue getting the building outlines before focusing on the other issues. 3. Tags You did a great job in the wiki page of explaining what tags will and won't be going into your final file that we'll evaluate. One step better (and eventually necessary) is to have the converted OSM, with all the changes applied to it, ready for review. Of course I want to encourage you to integrate building outlines into this data, which will obviously effect the issue of tags. 4. Conflation I think the issue of conflation needs a little more consideration, but again, if you're able to get building outlines, the conflation process will change radically, so I think it's best not to focus there. - Serge _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
