[Imports] Importing Arkansas data

[Marten Hogeweg]

Hi Ian,

We have had other responses from OSM contributors and are working with the State of Arkansas and those folks tell us there is no issue contributing this data to OSM. We also see various places around the world that have the parcel boundaries loaded into OSM and some of those are featured as 'best of OSM'. We do not see it as a data dump.

Kind regards,

Marten

From: Ian Dees [mailto:ian.dees at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 12:14 PM
To: Al Pascual
Cc: imports at openstreetmap.org; Christine White; Marten Hogeweg
Subject: Re: [Imports] Importing Arkansas data

Hi Al et al,

I noticed (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Al%20Pascual/edits) that have decided to go forward with your parcel import even though we expressed our wishes that you do not (or at least that we talk about it more).

Can you at least answer the questions I posed earlier before continuing dumping this data into OSM?

-Ian

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Al Pascual <apascual at esri.com<mailto:apascual at esri.com>> wrote:
Imports,

The state of Arkansas provided the data in shapefiles to be uploaded to OpenStreetMaps, we prepared the parcel data to be uploaded making sure they are not duplicates of parcel data in Arkansas, also we have all road data for the state that we will like to upload, we wrote a tool that using ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap 1.1 detects duplicates by how many collisions and intersections we found and only uploads the ways that do not have any collision.

Let us know if you have any questions.

Cheers
Al

Al Pascual
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