[Imports] Importing Arkansas data

[Josh Doe]

I created a stub on the wiki about parcels, though I haven't added
anything new to the discussion.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Parcel

-Josh

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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