[Imports-us] DWG Action on Blacksburg, VA Building and Address Import

[Clifford Snow]

Below is the response I received from Blacksburg.

>Thank you for asking Clifford.   The data is in the public domain.
Typically under Virginia FOIA for Virginia residents, however we >serve the
data up for public access.   You are welcome to use it and the only thing I
ever ask is that  you use a source statement >for the data and a date stamp
as this data changes often.   Wishing you and your family a fine and safe
Thanksgiving.

I think we can safely assume the data is legal for us to have in OSM.

That leaves the question of quality. Serge's initial message mentioned
duplicate addresses and "addresses don't generally fit the OSM addressing
scheme (in a number of ways)." Other than some non-osm tags, what problems
are there with the tagging?

Clifford


On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us>
wrote:

>
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 6:04 AM, Serge Wroclawski <emacsen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> There's no license on the page, or in the data files that I saw, so
>> the first step (before anything technical) would be to get the license
>> in order. From there, they'd need to come up with a strategy for
>> fixing the data in OSM (whether that means fixing it or starting from
>> scratch).
>>
>
> I've sent an email to the City of Blacksburg GIS Coordinator to find out
> how the data is licensed. Since this is a holiday period, we may not hear
> back for a while. I'm optimistic that it is properly licensed, but it is
> not documented on their website. Since they appear in a Virginia Open Data
> portal leads me to be hopeful.
>
> Clifford
>
>
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