[Imports] Building & Address Import - Lexington, KY

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 02/25/2016 08:47 PM, Ryan Cooper wrote:
> I'd like to propose an import of city-sourced GIS data for Lexington, Kentucky, USA.

It appears to me that you're planning to enlist a number of volunteers
for this project who might not even be familiar with OSM - i.e. you're
not looking for existing mappers to drive this import, but for
volunteers from something called "CodeAcross". How will you ensure these
people bring enough understanding of OSM to the table?

As you probably know, the reason why we want imports spread out on many
shoulders is mostly that we hope that someone who has imported just a
thousand buildings in his home area is more likely to actually care for
that long-term, than someone who plasters a city with a hundred thousand
buildings from afar! In your attempts to enlist newbies for this cause,
please make sure that this long-term aspect is mentioned. Don't make it
look like a time-limited project where people sign up, import a thousand
houses, and then have done their duty and can leave again (because then
you might as well dump the whole load on OSM by a script).

Also, I'm wondering what the whole APH business in the "historic
overview" chapter on your wiki page has to do with Lexington?

Speaking of which, I don't quite get the logic. "APH sells an App for
$99 which might become cheaper if they get better data"? But the data is
open anyway, so APH could use it from the source instead of from
OpenStreetMap. I don't get why adding the data to OSM helps the blind.
But I'm not sure if you even wanted to make that point, or if it is just
a copy-paste leftover.

Bye
Frederik

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