FYI - it has been suggested I forward this to talk-us. Apologies for missing the cc: on the front end. Please advise of any concerns. I expect that we will put out an update on the status of our plans after tomorrow night's meeting, so we are still a bit away from starting the import process & there will be time to provide further input.<div>
<br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Jeff<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeff Meyer</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeff@gwhat.org">jeff@gwhat.org</a>></span><br>
Date: Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 12:30 PM<br>Subject: City of Seattle imports<br>To: <a href="mailto:imports@openstreetmap.org">imports@openstreetmap.org</a><br>Cc: Clifford Snow <<a href="mailto:clifford@snowandsnow.us">clifford@snowandsnow.us</a>><br>
<br><br>All - <div><br></div><div>The city of Seattle has recently granted permission to use data found at <a href="http://data.seattle.gov" target="_blank">data.seattle.gov</a> in OpenStreetMap.</div><div><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors#City_of_Seattle.2C_Washington" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors#City_of_Seattle.2C_Washington</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>A group of Seattle OSM'ers (led by Cliff Snow) are getting together to discuss the methods for importing and double-checking the information. </div><div><a href="http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Seattle/events/93524692/" target="_blank">http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Seattle/events/93524692/</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>The current plan is to focus on addresses and building outlines.</div><div>Sources are currently suggested to be tagged as:</div><div>source:addr=<a href="http://data.seattle.gov" target="_blank">data.seattle.gov</a></div>
<div>source:path=<a href="http://data.seattle.gov" target="_blank">data.seattle.gov</a></div><div>so as to accomodate other sourcing information for those points and ways, as appropriate.</div><div><br></div><div>Data has been converted from shape to osm using pnorman's ogr2osm python scripts and some translation instructions Cliff has put together.</div>
<div><br></div><div>At the meeting, we will discuss concerns about the import, methods of curating the data, how to divide up the work, and how to properly track data created through this import. A cursory review of the data has identified a variety of issues: e.g. non-existent addresses, misplaced addresses, including buildings that no longer exist, etc. So, we are not planning to just do a big bulk dump of information.</div>
<div><br></div><div>More news to follow. Please advise of any concerns. </div><div><br></div><div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Jeff</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br><font size="1">Jeff Meyer<br>
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