Hi, > * Another is, the threat of importing crappy TIGER ranges is motivating people > to go look at available county data. That is fantastic. So as Ian alluded > to pushing the conversation forward is itself a motivator
The reason why I pushed the building import is that I am worried about somebody else importing the tiger address ranges in MA. We have great address data available in the MA L3 parcels. However, the buildings need to go in first, so the addresses can go on the buildings. Given the controversy, I figured it is likely to not be to discussed publicly until whomever is working it is pretty far along in preparing it. Once they stick their neck out on the list, they will likely want to finish it as soon as possible to minimize the hazing time. If the addresses are already in MA, they will obviously skip us. For everybody that is asking what is the rush on the building import, now you know. So, yes Steve's plan worked perfectly.... I agree with Steve, that if you can't search for an address and expect it to work most of the time, the map is really not useful for most people. It is kind of basic expectation of what a map does. The quality of the imported road data in MA is very high. I don't think the people who are mapping in MA are at all unhappy that it is in the db. The quality of the building from MassGIS that we are working on importing is also quite high. It is much better than the 5000 buildings I traced out by hand this fall, I wish I did not trace any of them and just imported them in December. Thanks Jason _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
