Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS building conversion

Jeff, On 12/11/12 08:48, Jeff Meyer wrote: Frederik - one question I have about changeset tags and things like correspondence tables - how easy will it be for people to discover that this data even exists? How will they know to look for it? Will they need to be software developers? For example,

Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS building conversion

Hi, On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: +1 for importing this. I'm curious for a battle plan of whoever leads this effort, this will be a lot of work. I think the plan should be to give the local mappers some time hand merge the data in, record what towns

Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS building conversion

On 11 December 2012 03:46, Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.com wrote: I think the plan should be to give the local mappers some time hand merge the data in, record what towns were done by hand, then import rest of the data with a script (or coarse not putting buildings over buildings).

Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS building conversion

+1 for importing this. I'm curious for a battle plan of whoever leads this effort, this will be a lot of work. Re: license, I've heard personally from MassGIS director Christian Jacqz that all of Mass' GIS data is public domain based on the state's open policy on public records. I think this

Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS building conversion

From: Alex Barth [mailto:a...@mapbox.com] Subject: Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS building conversion On Dec 9, 2012, at 3:51 PM, Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.com wrote: But, in general, I don't think the MassGIS ID's should be included since they are just the center of mass

Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS building conversion

Hi Paul - On Dec 10, 2012, at 6:06 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: Any future work with the data after it's imported will have to handle buildings without IDs. I included IDs in two of my imports and have found them useless. I think that without a clear plan to use them (i.e. one

Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS building conversion

I would highly encourage retaining them. (of course! : ) ) Unless there's another plan for retaining some association, it could be very helpful in the future for referencing between OSM and MassGIS records. And... maybe there's other information in the Mass records that an OSMer might want to

Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS building conversion

From: Alex Barth [mailto:a...@mapbox.com] Subject: Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS building conversion Hi Paul - On Dec 10, 2012, at 6:06 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: Any future work with the data after it's imported will have to handle buildings without IDs. I included IDs in two

Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS building conversion

Hi, On 12/11/2012 01:04 AM, Paul Norman wrote: Lots of people include IDs because they think they might be useful but very seldom are they actually used. I can second that. I have witnessed many imports painstakingly preserving the ID (because, after all, most of us are IT people and our

Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS building conversion

Frederik - one question I have about changeset tags and things like correspondence tables - how easy will it be for people to discover that this data even exists? How will they know to look for it? Will they need to be software developers? For example, will a GIS expert from the state of

Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS building conversion

Hi Serge, I don't see a license related to this data, only a copyright notice on the page. Is there a separate license somewhere that says this data is usable? Like the federal goverment, maps are considered part of the public record in Mass, and therefor are in the public domain (no

Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS building conversion

Hi Jason, If the MassGIS building/address objects have MassGIS IDs are you planning to preserve them in the OSM DB ? Best, On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Serge, I don't see a license related to this data, only a copyright notice on the

Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS building conversion

Hi Jason - Great to hear about the import. Sounds like some interesting data! Have you taken a look through the import checklist at: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines? I've recently made some updates would love to have you walk through those steps to QA them. Also - it looks

Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS building conversion

Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Serge, I don't see a license related to this data, only a copyright notice on the page. Is there a separate license somewhere that says this data is usable? Like the federal goverment, maps are considered part of the public record

Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS building conversion

Hi John, I am not signing up for the import! I might have time next summer, but not right now. But, in general, I don't think the MassGIS ID's should be included since they are just the center of mass of the buildings, and there is no indication that they will be preserving them as they update

[Talk-us] MassGIS building conversion

Hello Everybody, Last week the Massachusetts mapping department (MassGIS) released data for all of the buildings in the state. http://www.mass.gov/anf/research-and-tech/it-serv-and-support/application-serv/office-of-geographic-information-massgis/datalayers/structures.html Since it is likely

Re: [Talk-us] MassGIS building conversion

On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Jason Remillard remillard.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Everybody, Hi Jason! Last week the Massachusetts mapping department (MassGIS) released data for all of the buildings in the state.