[Talk-us-massachusetts] Talk-us-massachusetts Digest, Vol 22, Issue 5

[Angela Morley]

I'm quite excited about this project, so I've made a wiki page for tracking the project, as required by the import guidelines.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue/MassGIS_Addresses

It sounds like we need to determine whether the licensing permission given is adequate here (I think it is, but I'm not an expert.), and whether a POI/point based import would be acceptable, or if we'd need to explore options of embedding the address data into the closest building polygon. You can download the shapefiles for the data on a per-town basis here: http://massgis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=530eb45188934e23a8703399fd37bf0f .

I was chatting with Leif Rasmussen (rasmussenhydra at gmail.com) on the Slack channel this evening, and they mentioned they have a java software they created and used in Florida for detecting duplicates and creating a changeset file, and offered to help with the data import. They were using the opendata plugin in JOSM to virtualize the data, but it does require an Excel to CSV export before opendata can read it.

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On July 15, 2018 8:46 PM, Yury Yatsynovich <yury.yatsynovich at gmail.com> wrote:

> Here is a pdf file with my request to MassGIS and their response
>
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 1:02 PM, Jason Remillard <remillard.jason at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Yury,
>>
>> Importing MassGIS address data is something will hopefully eventually happen. However, It hasn't been done yet because it is a really big project, but If you are interested in this project I would start with licensing.
>>
>> The last attempt at importing addresses just for Boston was hung up on the licensing step.
>>
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ryebread/diary/38364
>>
>> The MassGIS address data uses the Creative Commons Attribution License (cc-by).
>>
>> OSM people have looked at importing cc-by data into osm, and have concluded that we need to ask permission.
>>
>> https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2017/03/17/use-of-cc-by-data/
>>
>> They suggest using this template https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3PN5zfbzThqeTdWR1l3SzJVcTg/view to write a letter to get permission to do the import.
>>
>> A couple of years ago, the MassGIS data was in the public domain, they changed the license, so we probably can't do anything with new MssGIS data unless we get the letter signed. If you do write a letter, ask for permission for all MassGIS cc-by data, not just the address data. I hope to update the OSM MassGIS L3 parcel layer this fall, which will require a second letter if we don't get permission for everything.
>> Perhaps, the email will be good enough. Print it to a pdf and share it with the group. Perhaps, we can upload your email to the OSM wiki, and use that.
>> Jason
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 8:29 AM, Yury Yatsynovich <yury.yatsynovich at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings!
>>> It was me who started the topic on importing MA addresses on the forum. Originally from Belarus, I'm currently residing in Malden, MA (so, might be considered somewhat local:)).
>>> I've contacted MassGIS about the possibility to import address points from their data to OSM and received their permission (as I mentioned in the thread on the forum).
>>> Best, Yury
>
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> Yury Yatsynovich
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