On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Antony,
Here in France, we also have access to the land registry WMS for the whole country (only raster images, not the shapefiles excepted for one "county" who released also the parcels as shapefiles). We use this source for buildings, street names and addresses but the data are not always up-to-date. We decided to not import parcels because we don't see the interest for the project. It is difficult to maintain (many parcels are modified daily - merged or split at the scale of the country), it is not verifiable (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Verifiability) and it does not say anything about the landuse in our case (excepted for the buildings footprints and cemeteries). But I can only speak for my country. I can understand the temptation to import everything when you have a bunch of geodata available but ask yourself if it is really valuable for OSM (I don't have the answer). Pieren _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
