<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Nov 9, 2012, at 2:22 PM, Toby Murray wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">Doing anything in OSM as a single user in an inefficient way of making<br>a significant impact.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></blockquote></div><br><div>Yes, I agree completely. Especially when somebody else (like your county GIS dept) has already done most of the work.</div><div><br></div><div><div>On Nov 11, 2012, at 7:45 PM, Russ Nelson wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Took my county's tax maps and converted them into an import. <br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div>For the most part, the import is quite accurate, and easily fixed when<br>wrong.<br></div></blockquote></div><div><div><br></div></div><div>Yeah, if it works for Google and Zillow, I don't see why it can't work for us also. Go Russ!</div><div><br></div><div>Steve Coast announced a tool for this a while back, called MagicShop FrontDoor at <a href="http://frontdoor.cloudapp.net/">http://frontdoor.cloudapp.net/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Unfortunately I haven't been able to find any updated information about it in over a year. There has been no news about any of the data actually making it into OSM. Heh, just like Steve didn't wait for Ordnance Survey to hand over the road data, I guess we shouldn't wait for Bing to hand us the addresses either.</div><div><br></div><div>- Alan</div><div><br></div></body></html>