[Imports] including Florida street address database, update

[Lewis Lineberger]

Hello all,

I hope I'm doing the right thing reaching out to you in this manner.
I've uncovered an amazing data source with the State of Florida, with
over 9 million locations with full street, number, prefix, city, zip
and LAT and LON.  I hope I am following the proper methods, advice
appreciated!  I have the data currently in my local MySQL database for
determining the Sales Tax I should charge by destination.  It is
therefore exportable to any format.  Included is the letter I sent to
the state of Florida.

All comments definitely appreciated.  I use the openstreetmap data on
my Android app, OsmAnd, and the information is really lacking for
Florida... so I'm hoping this would be a great help, and it works out.
Right now when I leave the house, I have to go to Google Maps and zero
in to obtain the LAT and LON, and add it to my favorites directly that
way.  It looks like about 90% of the address information in Florida is
missing right now.

Was I okay to send this email in this manner?  Should I get more buy
in before proceeding?
thanks

Lewis

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: database download permission to use in OpenStreetMaps
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 00:10:14 -0400
From: Lewis Lineberger <lewis at watergreat.com>
To: Local-Govt-Unit at dor.state.fl.us


Hi -

I'm writing to ask about the specifics of the terms of use of your
street address data found at:
https://pointmatch.state.fl.us/Default.aspx  as found in the 'download
by county' at https://pointmatch.state.fl.us/General/AddressFiles.aspx
 I have downloaded the county files in my use in determining local
sales tax for my company WaterGreat LLC.  With the excellent
availability of LAT and LON info along with street addresses, this
data would be of great value to the OpenStreetMap project.

The OpenStreetMap (OSM) community is currently making a push to add
street names and addresses mapped to LAT and LON  to its maps.   Your
local OSM group is very interested in working with your agency to make
sure the OSM community is abiding by your terms of use and also
complying with its own goals and guidelines. We have reviewed the
terms of use found at:
http://www.myflorida.com/myflorida/copyright.html and believe they are
not compatible with our license terms.

We would like to know if you could provide OSM with a waiver for your
commercial use restrictions | attribution requirements | etc.   For
attribution issues, other municipalities and governments in the United
States  have agreed to have OpenStreetMap include disclaimers like
this on this page:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors#United_States. Would
this be acceptable for you?

As background, across the United States, there are clear trends toward
implementing permissive Open Data policies. The federal government has
published a variety of GIS datasets at its data.gov site:
http://geo.data.gov/geoportal/catalog/search/browse/browse.page.
States like Oregon (http://www.oregon.gov/Pages/datamoderation.aspx),
cities like New York
(http://nycopendata.pediacities.com/wiki/index.php/Local_Law_11_of_2012)
and many other governments
(http://wiki.civiccommons.org/Open_Data_Policy) are implementing or
planning to implement Open Data policies. Among these trends are
removing restrictions on commercial reuse of this public data and
relaxation of source attribution requirements.

Many local agencies have found that OSM can be a valuable resource for
their local communities and businesses. OSM is also a way to ensure
that publicly-funded data is being used as widely as possible and to
support the general public and local commerce.

If you'd like to learn more about OSM's license, you can read about it
here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright.

We are available for phone conversations or discussions to answer any
questions you might have related to this request.

Regards,
Local OSM Representative
Lewis Lineberger
http://www.openstreetmap.org
http://localosmgroup.tld

Other references:
Interview with former US CTO Aneesh Chopra regarding open data:
http://ctovision.com/2012/10/ctovision-interview-of-aneesh-chopra/