Congratulations, Elliott! I know you've been working toward this for a long time!
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Elliott Plack <[email protected]>wrote: > TO: > [talk-us] > [imports-us] > > FROM: > Elliott Plack > [[email protected]] > [[email protected]] > > 27 Sep 2013 > > Greetings OpenStreetMappers, > > I am very excited to announce that my organization, Baltimore County > Government Office of Information > Technology<http://www.baltimorecountymd.gov/Agencies/infotech/GIS/index.html> > is > releasing our GIS data to the public in a free and nonrestrictive way! We > maintain a vast array of GIS data used for land management, emergency > management, and public works programs. Baltimore County covers nearly 700 > square miles and has about 800,000 denizens. Today that data is available > to download (and perhaps integrate into OSM). > > http://www.baltimorecountymd.gov/Agencies/infotech/GIS/index.html > > I have also put some of our data into some repositories on GitHub, which > you can also see right now <https://github.com/baltimorecounty>. In > particular to OSM interests, I want to point out the AddressPoints > repo<https://github.com/baltimorecounty/address-points>, > just a snippet of the dataset, which is very accurate as it used by our 911 > center. We have several full time staff that maintain that data daily. That > data is also available in full from the FTP source above. > > I would like to get the conversation started about how some of this data > might be worth *importing *to OSM. There is very little mapping activity > in the rural areas of the county, and while many *buildings *have been > added, *address *coverage is low. There are many other possibilities > here, like converting centerlines to an imagery layer for improving > existing roads, and plat boundaries for tagging landuse areas in OSM. > > We also have hard drives and intranet folders full of *orthoimagery *that > is available upon request. Some dates back to the 1930s. > > Regarding licenses and the legal aspects of the data. Baltimore County > asserts that the data is to be released into the public domain. They make > no claims for any kind of license or attribution, but there is a standard > accuracy disclaimer. I have been pushing for a specific license declaration > like ODbL but so far there hasn't been any movement there. If anyone wants > to help with that effort, let me know. > > Finally, I want to thank Josh Doe and Ian Dees for getting the Maryland > State Orthoimagery map service proxied by osm.us so that folks may use it > in their JOSM sessions! > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/Local_Chapters/United_States/Servers/Imagery > This > is excellent data from *2011, leaf-off, 6 inch orthophotography*. Great > for mapping! > > I welcome comments and feedback. > > Cheers, > > -- > Elliott Plack > http://about.me/elliottp > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > >
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