"Open to the public" is not the same thing as free from copyright restrictions....
-jack On February 11, 2016 1:46:53 PM EST, Clifford Snow <[email protected]> wrote: >Sixty percent of Washington State counties have open data portals with >GIS >data. Washington State laws (Open Records Act) requires that this data >be >open to the public. Road data from most of the counties seem to be much >more current than TIGER data. I've been creating background tiles for >nearby counties but I would like to find a way to share the information >with others. Since tiles use a lot of disk space, I've been looking for >solution other than using my laptop. One promising solution is Mapbox >Studio's vector tile service. Unfortunately the ability to provide >background tiles is not yet available. If anyone from Mapbox has an >update >on when, I would be interested in hearing from you. > >My questions to the community are: > * Is it valuable to have county tiles available as backgrounds in our >editors? > * Counties use all sorts of formats for name and road >classifications. Should we produce generalized background or a detailed >background with different colors and line type with a key? The key >would >have to be on the wiki as far as I know. > * The data is usually updated monthly. How often should we try to >update the tiles? > * Is there a good cost effective solution to serve these tiles? > * If the solution is to use a cloud based service, is the US Chapter >willing to pay for the service? > >Washington State is the only state with counties providing open data. >If >this works for Washington, it could work for others. If this approach >is >adopted, a scaleable solution will be required. > >Clifford > >-- >@osm_seattle >osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us >OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Talk-us mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- Typos courtesy of fancy auto-spell technology.
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