Am I wrong to assume that this would be considered a potential data source on a limited scale for folks who wish to do the conflation?
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Ian Dees <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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