Hi All,<div><br></div><div>I'm planning on converting these to OSM format in the coming hours and dividing them up into chunks of some size that can be relatively easily checked by humans.</div><div><br></div><div>I'll post to the list and to that page with the chunks later.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Ian<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:55 PM, <a href="mailto:Flambeaux@gmail.com">Flambeaux@gmail.com</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:flambeaux@gmail.com">flambeaux@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">MapQuest is providing several address files that contain user-provided<br>
latitude and longitude locations across the world. Our users provided<br>
these exact locations to us so that they could be mapped correctly on<br>
our MapQuest maps.<br>
<br>
There are currently three (3) main files - one for the United States,<br>
one for Canada and one for Europe. More information can be found on<br>
our wiki page: <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MapQuest/Critical_Addresses" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MapQuest/Critical_Addresses</a><br>
<br>
We didn't want to just import these addresses directly into OSM, but<br>
wanted them to be available to anyone that wanted to have them. To be<br>
clear:<br>
<br>
1. these addresses are user provided<br>
2. there is a high degree of ground-truth from these users<br>
3. they WANTED to be in the data and be correctly mapped<br>
4. we've checked with our lawyers, and yes, you can have them - UNENCUMBERED!<br>
<br>
Cheers!<br>
<br>
Deb Tankersley<br>
MapQuest Open Initiative<br>
OSM User: hey ok<br>
<br>
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