<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>"<span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Because that information is useless in OSM. It was out of
date the second</span></div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">someone ran the upload script and unless the city of
Fresno decides to</div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">switch to OSM for their official tax plat information
(which I'm pretty</div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">sure would be illegal in most jurisdictions), no one in
the community can</div>
<div class="MsoPlainText">improve it. We should get rid of it."</div><div class="MsoPlainText"><br></div><div class="MsoPlainText">Excuse me, but what is your foundation for declaring cadastral data "useless" in OSM?</div><div class="MsoPlainText">Where does it say that OSM is just for roads, addresses, and geocoding? As someone that uses OSM for disaster response, cadastral data, even outdated cadastral data, is a godsend when it is available. Cadastral is the foundation to developing damage assessments; often the only usable source for damage assessment in the US. It is far, far more easily than roads in this context; and were Fresno to be hit by an earthquake next week, it would be a PR disaster to find out that the critical cadastral data was available in OSM, and is now wiped away.</div><div class="MsoPlainText">This data even has the parcel ID, the most critical piece of information that often is excluded from cadastral sets. That keys you into
everything else you might want: address, land value, building value, FIRM map, etc.</div><div class="MsoPlainText"><br></div><div class="MsoPlainText">I do not understand this constant desire to handicap the usefulness of OSM.</div><div class="MsoPlainText">--Brett</div><div class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
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AR-SA;mso-no-proof:yes">Brett Lord-Castillo<br>
Information Systems Designer/GIS Programmer<br>
St. Louis County Police<br>
Office of Emergency Management</span><br></div></div></body></html>