[Imports] Open Street Map Data Contributions

[Minh Nguyen]

Vào lúc 11:51 2022-06-23, Ashlyn Haynes đã viết:
> We are with the City of Springdale, Arkansas GIS department. We have 
> been working on getting our public  data out to other mapping platforms. 
> We have recently submitted to ESRI and Google Maps. We created an 
> account, and have been going through the tutorial to familiarize 
> ourselves with OSM editing. We are wanting to submit our address and 
> centerline datasets for a contribution to your platform. I see in the 
> wiki page that there is a community buy in? Or licensing?  What is a 
> local buy in? We are a local government organization. I am not sure if 
> that matters.

Hi Ashlyn, thank you for reaching out to the community about your 
datasets. It's good that you're familiarizing yourself with OSM editing, 
regardless of which editor you're using. You're probably getting a sense 
of how much OSM's data model differs from typical GIS datasets. :-)

The previous responses explain some of the steps and considerations for 
carrying out an import of this data yourself. Our community is largely 
volunteer-led, so there's both an opportunity and often an assumption 
that you'd take an active role in adding the data to the map. It would 
be wonderful if you're willing to do that, but if not, it's still 
wonderful that you're letting the local community know they have 
permission to import it on your behalf. That's usually a big hurdle to 
clear.

It looks like addresses for Benton and Washington counties were 
systematically imported from a state dataset back in 2011. [1] 
Additionally, your department's address points were imported last year, 
along with building footprints from the state, but only for the portion 
of Springdale in Washington County. [2] The latter import was carried 
out by a Fayetteville-based volunteer; perhaps you could get in touch 
with them about continuing the import in the Benton County part of 
Springdale? [3]

Finally, there haven't been many centerline imports in OSM, due to the 
difficulty of conflating with the TIGER import and all the cleanup that 
has taken place since then. However, you could open an issue in the 
OpenAddresses centerlines repository about your dataset, which will make 
the dataset more discoverable to anyone who wants to use it as a source 
for surface types and such. [5]

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Arkansas_Situs_Address_Points_Import
[2] 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue/Springdale,_Arkansas_Building_Footprints
[3] https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Michael%20the%20Narwhal
[4] https://github.com/openaddresses/centerlines/

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