[Imports-us] Interested in importing address points in New York State

[Matthew Woehlke]

On 16/07/2020 00.44, Skyler Hawthorne wrote:
> Reading up on the import guidelines, I can see that the license is 
> important. However, I am not able to see anything that explicitly states 
> one way or another what kind of license the data sets are distributed 
> under, and this whether or not it is compatible with the ODBL.

Hello again! Great to see someone else working in my neck of the woods!

If the site doesn't state clearly (an issue I had with Prince William 
County, VA, which I have been working on for job-related reasons), I 
would recommend contacting the data issuing agency. I see it's a .ny.gov 
site, so it's almost surely legitimate (plus it's hard to imagine 
someone making the effort to set up a scam site with enough content to 
not be obvious).

There are some form letters you can use to ask if the data is available 
under a compatible license, or you can just ask them to clearly indicate 
the license *or if the data is Public Domain*. In my experience, it may 
be helpful to ask up front for the contact to clearly state if the data 
is or is not PD.

> As a disclaimer, I do this in my free time, which is in short supply, so 
> progress on this would likely be slow. However, I would love if everyone 
> could just search for any address and find it.

As someone who recently went looking and discovered that his former 
residence "doesn't exist" in OSM, I for one will be most gratified to 
see any improvements in the area :-).

-- 
Matthew