I agree that completely crowd-sourcing addresses is difficult: they're not that fun to map and can't currently be deduced from open imagery sources. I hope, though, that like so many other problems this is a question of making the data useful enough for it to be worth maintaining. Use of a map seems to be an essential prerequisite for improving the map's quality.
> while OA (the MB project) is neat in many ways, it's big drawback is > that it doesn't really address the main problem with OGD: determining > the terms on which the data is available. Right now using OA essentially > means looking at each of the 1'500 odd datasets (again) and checking if > their licence is compatible with whatever you want to do. This is a fair criticism, but we're making strides toward fixing it: https://github.com/openaddresses/openaddresses-ops/issues/7 I will also note, for whatever it's worth, that although Mapbox does contribute a decent amount of effort to OpenAddresses, the real heroes of the project are Mike Migurski, Nelson Minar, Ian Dees, and a bunch of other folks <https://github.com/orgs/openaddresses/people>. I'd hate for them not to get the credit they deserve for their hard work. On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Simon Poole <si...@poole.ch> wrote: > > Just a couple of (mostly non-legal) notes on the address stuff: > > - there already has been an attempt at crowd sourcing addresses that has > failed: the original OpenAddresses project (and I don't see anything > that has changed in the last couple years that would indicate that a > renewed effort would succeed). > > - Frederik referred to not wanting to have crowd sourced address data in > OSM. However we -do- have tons of crowded-surveyed address data in OSM > and it is growing steadily, naturally on the other hand we do have quite > a lot of imported address data in OSM that is not being maintained in > any meaningful way, including the mother of all OSM address imports. > > - while OA (the MB project) is neat in many ways, it's big drawback is > that it doesn't really address the main problem with OGD: determining > the terms on which the data is available. Right now using OA essentially > means looking at each of the 1'500 odd datasets (again) and checking if > their licence is compatible with whatever you want to do. > > Simon > > > _______________________________________________ > legal-talk mailing list > legal-talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk > >
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