[Imports] Potential Import of Addresses for Thurston County, WA, USA

Raven King thekingofravens at disroot.org
Wed Aug 26 00:07:18 UTC 2020


Alright I have an update:

After an email chain with Thurston County GeoData Center, I finally got
explicit permission to use the data in open street map. 

"Hello Raven,

You can use the data in Open Street Maps and credit GeoData UNLESS you
change the data in any way. If you change the data you can still use it
in Open Street Maps but CANNOT credit GeoData and the County. We make
no warrantees about the data temporally, spatially, or in terms of
attribution.

Please let me know if this helps to clarify the disclaimer or if you
still have questions.

Thank you!

Leslie Carman
GIS Analyst I"

I can provide the entire email chain if required but this is the part
that matters. As for the terms they gave me, what is the best way of handling this? My instinct is just to, in some very minor way, ensure every piece of data is modified somehow so future mappers do not have to worry about it. Does just adding it to OSM count as modification, since we convert the data fields?

At this point, I would like to propose that we import this data, as
this includes rural towns and unincorporated thurston
county.
I would divide the building footprints into small blocks to avoid well
mapped areas.
As for addresses, because they are points and there are so few
addresses in my region, I feel like we could be more aggresive about
that import, although how much so I am not certain.


Also @Clifford Snow if you see this I would appreciate whatever you
have to teach about imports. 

Sincerely,
Raven




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