o man this is great. amazing work Elliot! -- ian
On Friday, September 27, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Steven Johnson wrote: > Congratulations, Elliott! And kudos to all the people at Baltimore government > that made it possible. > On Sep 27, 2013 4:53 PM, "Elliott Plack" <[email protected] > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > TO: > > [talk-us] > > [imports-us] > > > > FROM: > > Elliott Plack > > [[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])] > > [[email protected] (mailto:[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 (http://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] (mailto:[email protected]) > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > >
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