Hi imports,
A couple weeks ago I sent this message about Chicago releasing some of
their data with an MIT license. Now that it's out and I've had some time to
work with it, I'd like to propose continuing the import of buildings in
Chicago.
As I mentioned, I already successfully imported roughly
Hi Ian,
- The changeset source tag, shouldn't that be something like - City of
Chicago, data set blablabla. The github link will probably be dead
in 5 years. You could use a website= tag on the change set for the
github repo link.
- The wiki says that you are planning on manually checking for
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Jason Remillard
remillard.ja...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi Ian,
- The changeset source tag, shouldn't that be something like - City of
Chicago, data set blablabla. The github link will probably be dead
in 5 years. You could use a website= tag on the change set for the
Hi Ian,
One more thing. I realize that this is a controversial area. On our
import MA building import we decided to not include the MassGIS
building id. The id was just a munged centroid position and MassGIS
indicated they don't intend for it to be preserved/maintained long
term. Basically, the
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Jason Remillard
remillard.ja...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi Ian,
One more thing. I realize that this is a controversial area. On our
import MA building import we decided to not include the MassGIS
building id. The id was just a munged centroid position and MassGIS
Awesome. NYC used to have the same retraction clause, luckily sane forces
did away with it there, too.
Bit by bit US city governments are outrunning OSM in openness :)
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Skye Book skye.b...@gmail.com wrote:
That is incredibly encouraging news, congrats on the
Hi imports,
Earlier last year I downloaded the Chicago building footprints shapefile
[0] from the Chicago data portal, chopped it into manageable bits and
started importing it into OSM. Halfway through the process of merging and
uploading this data I read the data portal's license [1] closer,
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