Re: [Talk-us] County Road Tiles
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 4:44 PM, Jack Burke wrote: > "Open to the public" is not the same thing as free from copyright > restrictions > IANAL, however, after having looked into this subject before for other projects, I do believe Washington's open records act is similar to Oregon's sunshine law (possibly even modeled after it). As such, in Washington State, state-sourced data works the same way as federal data in regards to availability and copyright provisions. 42.56 RCW is the applicable act; my reading is this applies to all data generated by the state after January 1, 1973 (and found it amusing that records after that time had until June 1, 1990 to become publicly available, with no requirement for newer data to be added to the public record until June 30, 1990, so in theory, there's a 28 day gap in the record). ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] County Road Tiles
"Open to the public" is not the same thing as free from copyright restrictions -jack On February 11, 2016 1:46:53 PM EST, Clifford Snow wrote: >Sixty percent of Washington State counties have open data portals with >GIS >data. Washington State laws (Open Records Act) requires that this data >be >open to the public. Road data from most of the counties seem to be much >more current than TIGER data. I've been creating background tiles for >nearby counties but I would like to find a way to share the information >with others. Since tiles use a lot of disk space, I've been looking for >solution other than using my laptop. One promising solution is Mapbox >Studio's vector tile service. Unfortunately the ability to provide >background tiles is not yet available. If anyone from Mapbox has an >update >on when, I would be interested in hearing from you. > >My questions to the community are: > * Is it valuable to have county tiles available as backgrounds in our >editors? > * Counties use all sorts of formats for name and road >classifications. Should we produce generalized background or a detailed >background with different colors and line type with a key? The key >would >have to be on the wiki as far as I know. > * The data is usually updated monthly. How often should we try to >update the tiles? > * Is there a good cost effective solution to serve these tiles? > * If the solution is to use a cloud based service, is the US Chapter >willing to pay for the service? > >Washington State is the only state with counties providing open data. >If >this works for Washington, it could work for others. If this approach >is >adopted, a scaleable solution will be required. > >Clifford > >-- >@osm_seattle >osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us >OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch > > > > >___ >Talk-us mailing list >Talk-us@openstreetmap.org >https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- Typos courtesy of fancy auto-spell technology. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] County Road Tiles
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Ian Dees wrote: > Hopefully that last paragraph was a typo, because there are tons of > counties providing open data. :) > Big typo! Should have read, Washington State isn't the only state with... > > If someone wants to work with me to get a tiling/caching system going > please let me know. OSM US already runs a caching tile server with several > layers for folks in the US to use. I'm happy to add more (and make adding > more easier). > Be happy to. I'll be traveling shortly. Once I get back I'll contact you directly. Clifford -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] County Road Tiles
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: > Sixty percent of Washington State counties have open data portals with GIS > data. Washington State laws (Open Records Act) requires that this data be > open to the public. Road data from most of the counties seem to be much > more current than TIGER data. I've been creating background tiles for > nearby counties but I would like to find a way to share the information > with others. Since tiles use a lot of disk space, I've been looking for > solution other than using my laptop. One promising solution is Mapbox > Studio's vector tile service. Unfortunately the ability to provide > background tiles is not yet available. If anyone from Mapbox has an update > on when, I would be interested in hearing from you. > > My questions to the community are: > * Is it valuable to have county tiles available as backgrounds in > our editors? > * Counties use all sorts of formats for name and road > classifications. Should we produce generalized background or a detailed > background with different colors and line type with a key? The key would > have to be on the wiki as far as I know. > * The data is usually updated monthly. How often should we try to > update the tiles? > * Is there a good cost effective solution to serve these tiles? > * If the solution is to use a cloud based service, is the US Chapter > willing to pay for the service? > > Washington State is the only state with counties providing open data. If > this works for Washington, it could work for others. If this approach is > adopted, a scaleable solution will be required. > Hopefully that last paragraph was a typo, because there are tons of counties providing open data. :) If someone wants to work with me to get a tiling/caching system going please let me know. OSM US already runs a caching tile server with several layers for folks in the US to use. I'm happy to add more (and make adding more easier). ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
[Talk-us] County Road Tiles
Sixty percent of Washington State counties have open data portals with GIS data. Washington State laws (Open Records Act) requires that this data be open to the public. Road data from most of the counties seem to be much more current than TIGER data. I've been creating background tiles for nearby counties but I would like to find a way to share the information with others. Since tiles use a lot of disk space, I've been looking for solution other than using my laptop. One promising solution is Mapbox Studio's vector tile service. Unfortunately the ability to provide background tiles is not yet available. If anyone from Mapbox has an update on when, I would be interested in hearing from you. My questions to the community are: * Is it valuable to have county tiles available as backgrounds in our editors? * Counties use all sorts of formats for name and road classifications. Should we produce generalized background or a detailed background with different colors and line type with a key? The key would have to be on the wiki as far as I know. * The data is usually updated monthly. How often should we try to update the tiles? * Is there a good cost effective solution to serve these tiles? * If the solution is to use a cloud based service, is the US Chapter willing to pay for the service? Washington State is the only state with counties providing open data. If this works for Washington, it could work for others. If this approach is adopted, a scaleable solution will be required. Clifford -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
