[Talk-us] Fwd: GIS datasets for openstreetmap.org - FTP

[Dave Hansen]

On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 10:37 -0700, Adam Layne wrote:
> Karl Newman told me that you might be the person to show these
> shapefiles to. I've been talking to someone at Mt. Hood National
> Forest about their datasets, and I'd like to do the same for all the
> national forests eventually. I don't have the technical expertise to
> actually do any kind of conversions.

The TIGER stuff was really a one-off thing for me.  I stole the code to
do the conversion!!  

But, I'll see what I can do to track down getting these converted as
well.  Thanks for chasing them down.

Are those ftp locations going away any time soon?

> Also, did you contact Metro about their data? I can try them again if
> you don't want to, but I'm beginning to get the feeling that their
> data was created by a private contractor.

To some degree, it doesn't matter who created it.  The taxpayers paid
for it to be created, and unless we got a serious price break for
agreeing not to share it, we probably need to share it.

-- Dave