<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">I agree that completely crowd-sourcing addresses is difficult: they're not that fun to map and can't currently be deduced from open imagery sources. I hope, though, that like so many other problems this is a question of making the data useful enough for it to be worth maintaining. Use of a map seems to be an essential prerequisite for improving the map's quality.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">> while OA (the MB project) is neat in many ways, it's big drawback is</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">> that it doesn't really address the main problem with OGD: determining</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">> the terms on which the data is available. Right now using OA essentially</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">> means looking at each of the 1'500 odd datasets (again) and checking if</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">> their licence is compatible with whatever you want to do.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>This is a fair criticism, but we're making strides toward fixing it:</div><div><br></div><a href="https://github.com/openaddresses/openaddresses-ops/issues/7">https://github.com/openaddresses/openaddresses-ops/issues/7</a><br><div><br></div><div>I will also note, for whatever it's worth, that although Mapbox does contribute a decent amount of effort to OpenAddresses, the real heroes of the project are Mike Migurski, Nelson Minar, Ian Dees, and a <a href="https://github.com/orgs/openaddresses/people">bunch of other folks</a>. I'd hate for them not to get the credit they deserve for their hard work.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Simon Poole <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simon@poole.ch" target="_blank">simon@poole.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Just a couple of (mostly non-legal) notes on the address stuff:<br>
<br>
- there already has been an attempt at crowd sourcing addresses that has<br>
failed: the original OpenAddresses project (and I don't see anything<br>
that has changed in the last couple years that would indicate that a<br>
renewed effort would succeed).<br>
<br>
- Frederik referred to not wanting to have crowd sourced address data in<br>
OSM. However we -do- have tons of crowded-surveyed address data in OSM<br>
and it is growing steadily, naturally on the other hand we do have quite<br>
a lot of imported address data in OSM that is not being maintained in<br>
any meaningful way, including the mother of all OSM address imports.<br>
<br>
- while OA (the MB project) is neat in many ways, it's big drawback is<br>
that it doesn't really address the main problem with OGD: determining<br>
the terms on which the data is available. Right now using OA essentially<br>
means looking at each of the 1'500 odd datasets (again) and checking if<br>
their licence is compatible with whatever you want to do.<br>
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Simon<br>
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