<div dir="ltr">Raven,<div>I would suggest you add the email contents to the contributors [1] section of the wiki. I agree with you that we will be modifying their data by not using their tags and adding ours. I would recommend making a note of that on the wiki. </div><div><br></div><div>I am happy to help you get started with your import. If you have time, we could do a video chat to go over how I do imports and what would work best for you. Please email me off line with some time frames that would work for you. </div><div><br></div><div>Clifford</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors#United_States#Washington_State">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors#United_States#Washington_State</a></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 5:07 PM Raven King <<a href="mailto:thekingofravens@disroot.org">thekingofravens@disroot.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Alright I have an update:<br>
<br>
After an email chain with Thurston County GeoData Center, I finally got<br>
explicit permission to use the data in open street map. <br>
<br>
"Hello Raven,<br>
<br>
You can use the data in Open Street Maps and credit GeoData UNLESS you<br>
change the data in any way. If you change the data you can still use it<br>
in Open Street Maps but CANNOT credit GeoData and the County. We make<br>
no warrantees about the data temporally, spatially, or in terms of<br>
attribution.<br>
<br>
Please let me know if this helps to clarify the disclaimer or if you<br>
still have questions.<br>
<br>
Thank you!<br>
<br>
Leslie Carman<br>
GIS Analyst I"<br>
<br>
I can provide the entire email chain if required but this is the part<br>
that matters. As for the terms they gave me, what is the best way of handling this? My instinct is just to, in some very minor way, ensure every piece of data is modified somehow so future mappers do not have to worry about it. Does just adding it to OSM count as modification, since we convert the data fields?<br>
<br>
At this point, I would like to propose that we import this data, as<br>
this includes rural towns and unincorporated thurston<br>
county.<br>
I would divide the building footprints into small blocks to avoid well<br>
mapped areas.<br>
As for addresses, because they are points and there are so few<br>
addresses in my region, I feel like we could be more aggresive about<br>
that import, although how much so I am not certain.<br>
<br>
<br>
Also @Clifford Snow if you see this I would appreciate whatever you<br>
have to teach about imports. <br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>
Raven<br>
<br>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>@osm_washington<br></div><div><a href="https://www.snowandsnow.us" target="_blank">www.snowandsnow.us</a></div><div>OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>