<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The 911 address database has locations (or tries to have locations) right down to the entry door. So if you have a two-unit building with two addresses and one entrance in front and one entrance in back, those entrances will have separate data points at the entrances. The reason, of course, is so that first responders don’t waste time trying to locate the correct entrance. Importing this database and setting up a programmatic routine for updating it regularly would seem to be the best practice.<br class=""><div><br class=""></div><div>— Andy</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 14, 2018, at 11:51 AM, Angela Morley <<a href="mailto:amorley@protonmail.com" class="">amorley@protonmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class="">My thoughts on this are that this is something we need to do to make OSM truly useful. Adding addresses in by hand is a bandaid fix because we don't have that data already. Unfortunately, I don't have any feedback on technical ways to do this correctly, but I wanted to express my +1 to doing this.<br class=""><br class="">As far as which building on a parcel to tag, is there a way to make it the larger one? That may cover the majority of circumstances, and any further edits would be corrections for where the address actually is.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">-------- Original Message --------<br class="">On Jul 13, 2018, 08:29, Yury Yatsynovich < <a href="mailto:yury.yatsynovich@gmail.com" class="">yury.yatsynovich@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="protonmail_quote"><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Greetings!<div dir="auto" class="">It was me who started the topic on importing MA addresses on the forum. Originally from Belarus, I'm currently residing in Malden, MA (so, might be considered somewhat local:)).</div><div dir="auto" class="">I've contacted MassGIS about the possibility to import address points from their data to OSM and received their permission (as I mentioned in the thread on the forum).</div><div dir="auto" class="">Best, Yury</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Fri, Jul 13, 2018, 8:01 AM <<a href="mailto:talk-us-massachusetts-request@openstreetmap.org" class="">talk-us-massachusetts-request@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Send Talk-us-massachusetts mailing list submissions to<br class="">
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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 09:54:58 -0400<br class="">
From: Greg Troxel <<a href="mailto:gdt@lexort.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">gdt@lexort.com</a>><br class="">
To: "Alan & Ruth Bragg" <<a href="mailto:alan.ruth.bragg@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">alan.ruth.bragg@gmail.com</a>><br class="">
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Can you give us a brief summary, like who is proposing this, if they are<br class="">
local, and if they are knoww on the list? I thought that the talk-us@<br class="">
email group was mandatory for US imports.<br class="">
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Also, massgis's licensing seems to be perhaps changing, to something<br class="">
ccish instead of PD, but I suspect they don't really mean to exclude OSM<br class="">
use. Perhaps that's changed again and I'm out of date.<br class="">
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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 09:56:57 -0400<br class="">
From: Greg Troxel <<a href="mailto:gdt@lexort.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">gdt@lexort.com</a>><br class="">
To: "Alan & Ruth Bragg" <<a href="mailto:alan.ruth.bragg@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">alan.ruth.bragg@gmail.com</a>><br class="">
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So I see this is just someone asking, not a real proposal.<br class="">
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It might be just as well for someone who uses forums to point them to<br class="">
this list, and to caution them that imports are hard and this one is<br class="">
going to be particularly hard...<br class="">
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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 10:03:58 -0400<br class="">
From: Jason Remillard <<a href="mailto:remillard.jason@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">remillard.jason@gmail.com</a>><br class="">
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Hi Greg,<br class="">
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<a href="https://docs.digital.mass.gov/dataset/massgis-data-master-address-data-statewide-address-points-geocoding" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://docs.digital.mass.gov/dataset/massgis-data-master-address-data-statewide-address-points-geocoding</a><br class="">
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It looks like MassGIS clarified the licensing situation. It is cc-by.<br class="">
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<a href="https://opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by/</a><br class="">
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OSM policy on cc-by v4 is that we should ask explicit permission to import<br class="">
it.<br class="">
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<a href="https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2017/03/17/use-of-cc-by-data/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2017/03/17/use-of-cc-by-data/</a><br class="">
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On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 9:54 AM, Greg Troxel <<a href="mailto:gdt@lexort.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">gdt@lexort.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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> Can you give us a brief summary, like who is proposing this, if they are<br class="">
> local, and if they are knoww on the list? I thought that the talk-us@<br class="">
> email group was mandatory for US imports.<br class="">
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> Also, massgis's licensing seems to be perhaps changing, to something<br class="">
> ccish instead of PD, but I suspect they don't really mean to exclude OSM<br class="">
> use. Perhaps that's changed again and I'm out of date.<br class="">
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Jason Remillard <<a href="mailto:remillard.jason@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">remillard.jason@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br class="">
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> <a href="https://docs.digital.mass.gov/dataset/massgis-data-master-address-data-statewide-address-points-geocoding" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://docs.digital.mass.gov/dataset/massgis-data-master-address-data-statewide-address-points-geocoding</a><br class="">
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> It looks like MassGIS clarified the licensing situation. It is cc-by.<br class="">
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> <a href="https://opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by/</a><br class="">
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> OSM policy on cc-by v4 is that we should ask explicit permission to import<br class="">
> it.<br class="">
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> <a href="https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2017/03/17/use-of-cc-by-data/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2017/03/17/use-of-cc-by-data/</a><br class="">
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Thanks - that's great news. It used to be cc-by-sa. They don't seem<br class="">
to point to a version, so I guess that means the latest. Certainly<br class="">
asking if it's ok is easy enough, should we get to the point where we<br class="">
are serious.<br class="">
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Long-term, I would love to see us import the addresses. That's a big<br class="">
job, in terms of avoiding existing data and conflation to our buildings<br class="">
(but they've done some of that) and I may eventually have time to help.<br class="">
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