[Imports] Importing Arkansas data

[Pieren]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> To clarify what I meant about parcel data: I'm assuming you mean parcels in
> terms of household property boundaries. This data is difficult to fit into
> the OSM data model because it a) updates frequently and b) has an "official"
> source that is better to use than OSM. If you can extract addressing from
> the parcel data then we can use it to do better geocoding, but loading OSM
> with parcel data puts us closer to a "data dumping grounds" than an active,
> community-built map.
>
>
For information, in France (65 M inhabitants), we have all the tools to
import parcels for about 2 thirds of the territory but we all agreed to not
do this for the same reasons as listed above.

Pieren
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