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

[Clifford Snow]

Raven,
I would suggest you add the email contents to the contributors [1] section
of the wiki. I agree with you that we will be modifying their data by not
using their tags and adding ours. I would recommend making a note of that
on the wiki.

I am happy to help you get started with your import. If you have time, we
could do a video chat to go over how I do imports and what would work best
for you. Please email me off line with some time frames that would work for
you.

Clifford


[1]
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors#United_States#Washington_State

On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 5:07 PM Raven King <thekingofravens at disroot.org>
wrote:

> 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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