Not a stupid question at all. I decided to collect this stuff outside of OSM for two reasons:
- An "address data" census is pretty interesting by itself, and learning how to find it is useful. - Having address data outside of OSM means we can make it more liberally licensed for tons of people to use. I don't want to burden the amalgamation of data with attribution or share-alike because the source data is usually not copyrightable in the first place (at least in the U.S.). - The import process for OSM is tedious, long, and a negative experience that I didn't want to go through with every municipality in the country. On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Paul Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Forgive the stupid question, but shouldn't this be in the OSM data? > On Mar 25, 2014 4:29 PM, "Ian Dees" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> As some of you know, I've been working on collecting as much address data >> as >> possible for the last couple years. I had created a spreadsheet to track >> progress for myself and others had contributed their own entries. That >> spreadsheet hit more than 300 entries tracking millions of address points >> and parcel boundaries. >> >> With the help of awesome people like Travis Pinney, Nick Ingalls, Tom >> MacWright, and Alex Barth, this past weekend we released a website and a >> data dump with the source data collected into one 1.6GB zip file. Check it >> out here: >> >> http://openaddresses.io/ >> >> So far, you can add data easily in two ways: >> - Submit an issue or pull request to the GitHub repo here: >> https://github.com/openaddresses/openaddresses >> - Fill out this form here: >> >> >> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1qyep9mxNtYBGV__NOGqJOUEg95-flWJnnD-FEcga0EQ/viewform >> >> It would be supremely cool if you took a minute or two and found address >> or >> parcel data in your area and added it to the index here. >> >> Thanks! >> Ian > >
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