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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Ian,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>We have had other responses from OSM contributors and are working with the State of Arkansas and those folks tell us there is no issue contributing this data to OSM. We also see various places around the world that have the parcel boundaries loaded into OSM and some of those are featured as ‘best of OSM’. We do not see it as a data dump.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Marten<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Ian Dees [mailto:ian.dees@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 28, 2011 12:14 PM<br><b>To:</b> Al Pascual<br><b>Cc:</b> imports@openstreetmap.org; Christine White; Marten Hogeweg<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Imports] Importing Arkansas data<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Al et al,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I noticed (<a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Al%20Pascual/edits">http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Al%20Pascual/edits</a>) that have decided to go forward with your parcel import even though we expressed our wishes that you do not (or at least that we talk about it more).<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Can you at least answer the questions I posed earlier before continuing dumping this data into OSM?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>-Ian<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Al Pascual <<a href="mailto:apascual@esri.com">apascual@esri.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Imports,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>The state of Arkansas provided the data in shapefiles to be uploaded to OpenStreetMaps, we prepared the parcel data to be uploaded making sure they are not duplicates of parcel data in Arkansas, also we have all road data for the state that we will like to upload, we wrote a tool that using ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap 1.1 detects duplicates by how many collisions and intersections we found and only uploads the ways that do not have any collision.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Let us know if you have any questions.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Cheers<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Al<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr style='min-height:62.5pt'><td width=190 style='width:142.5pt;border-top:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;min-height:62.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%'><b><span style='color:black'>Al Pascual</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%'><span style='color:black'>ESRI Professional Services</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>Office:<a href="tel:%28909%29793-2853" target="_blank">(909)793-2853</a> x1045</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%'><a href="http://twitter.com/alpascual" target="_blank"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=268 height=45 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.png@01CBED42.B52004B0" alt="Description: Followme"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p></td><td width=129 valign=top style='width:97.05pt;border-top:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:none;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;min-height:62.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:115%'><img border=0 width=138 height=53 id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CBED42.B52004B0" alt="Description: esri"><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br>Imports mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Imports@openstreetmap.org">Imports@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports" target="_blank">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>