[Talk-ca] all our addresses are belong to you

[john whelan]

There is a fair amount of address information in the CANVEC files.

Cheerio John

On 2 March 2011 15:55, Flambeaux at gmail.com <flambeaux at gmail.com> wrote:

> MapQuest is providing several address files that contain user-provided
> latitude and longitude locations across the world. Our users provided
> these exact locations to us so that they could be mapped correctly on
> our MapQuest maps.
>
> There are currently three (3) main files - one for the United States,
> one for Canada and one for Europe.  More information can be found on
> our wiki page:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MapQuest/Critical_Addresses
>
> We didn't want to just import these addresses directly into OSM, but
> wanted them to be available to anyone that wanted to have them.  To be
> clear:
>
> 1. these addresses are user provided
> 2. there is a high degree of ground-truth from these users
> 3. they WANTED to be in the data and be correctly mapped
> 4. we've checked with our lawyers, and yes, you can have them -
> UNENCUMBERED!
>
> Cheers!
>
> Deb Tankersley
> MapQuest Open Initiative
> OSM User: hey ok
>
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