Re: [Talk-us] Address improvement through imports?

2011-11-16 Thread Anthony
Voter records are a good idea. And business registration records / business tax records also. I think getting the business addresses is going to be the harder task. But maybe if we merge data from multiple sources we can get a decent portion of it. On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Metcalf,

Re: [Talk-us] Address improvement through imports?

2011-11-16 Thread Brad Neuhauser
just an FYI--some states have laws limiting who can access voter data and/or what purposes the data can be used for (usually related to elections/campaigning) On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: Voter records are a good idea. And business registration records /

[Talk-us] Any mappers local to NYC/LI?

2011-11-16 Thread Skye Book
I'm doing a ton of work with the data made available from the city as of late and a gripe from some people employed by the local government about OSM is that it isn't making full use of the data that the city is putting out there for consumption. Indeed, there is a ton of information that we

Re: [Talk-us] Any mappers local to NYC/LI?

2011-11-16 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Skye Book skye.b...@gmail.com wrote: I'm doing a ton of work with the data made available from the city as of late and a gripe from some people employed by the local government about OSM is that it isn't making full use of the data that the city is putting

Re: [Talk-us] Any mappers local to NYC/LI?

2011-11-16 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
On 11/16/2011 09:18 AM, Skye Book wrote: I'm doing a ton of work with the data made available from the city as of late and a gripe from some people employed by the local government about OSM is that it isn't making full use of the data that the city is putting out there for consumption.

Re: [Talk-us] Any mappers local to NYC/LI?

2011-11-16 Thread Katie Filbert
On Nov 16, 2011, at 12:18 PM, Skye Book skye.b...@gmail.com wrote: I'm doing a ton of work with the data made available from the city as of late and a gripe from some people employed by the local government about OSM is that it isn't making full use of the data that the city is putting

Re: [Talk-us] Any mappers local to NYC/LI?

2011-11-16 Thread Skye Book
On Nov 16, 2011, at 1:07 PM, Katie Filbert wrote: On Nov 16, 2011, at 12:18 PM, Skye Book skye.b...@gmail.com wrote: I'm doing a ton of work with the data made available from the city as of late and a gripe from some people employed by the local government about OSM is that it isn't