Hi, Many city governments in Massachusetts publish their parcel (lot) data for free reuse, either individually or through MassGIS. This data is appropriately licensed for re-use in OSM, and is informative -- in most cases, it has addresses which can be used for geocoding.
I'm curious as to whether people believe that this data of this type is appropriate for upload into OSM. There are clear technical reasons why this data might not belong in OSM -- the quantity of data is significant, and you can imagine that it could create a much larger database. At the moment, I'd rather address the social aspect of whether this data is appropriate to upload to OSM. A description of the data in question with regard to MassGIS is available at: http://www.mass.gov/mgis/parcels.htm Looking forward to hearing any and all opinions on this matter. Best Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
