[Imports] [Talk-us-newyork] Draft proposal for import of New York State GIS SAM Address Points

[Skyler Hawthorne]

Jan 9, 2021 12:49:02 Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny at gmail.com>:

> Aside to Richard Welty:  Did we ever hear back from NYSGIS with some sort of statement that use of their data is OK?  NYS Orthos Online got dropped from iD, if memory serves, because the team demanded more assurance than what we had.

Yes, see: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/New_York/NYS_GIS_Clearinghouse#Legal

And also the previous discussion in this mailing list before that I linked to.

I have also been in regular contact with the GIS office regarding questions about the data, and they have been helping me learn about the data set, with the explicit purpose of importing the data into OSM. I'm happy to provide a copy of these emails if desired.

> None of these things are showstoppers; it's mostly better than what we have.  But it's good to look at the edge cases and make sure that we at least do something reasonable - and in particular, to make sure that we don't spoil work that mappers have already done.

For sure, thanks for finding these edge cases! It's definitely good to have knowledge of the kinds of issues we can expect. I've noticed a few oddities about the data as well. But I agree with your closing statement: while the data is certainly imperfect, I haven't seen anything concerning enough and on a large enough scale that it would make me reconsider importing it at all.

With that said, when I get some time tonight or tomorrow, I'll take a look at these example edge cases and see what happens with my conversion program. Definitely good to understand these edge cases and make sure we do something reasonable with the data.
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