[Talk-us] [Imports] [Talk-ca] TIGER considered harmful

[Kate Chapman]

Dan,

Alexandria gave us permission to import their data but still wanted  
the 100 dollar CD fee. Someone paid that and we do have the data.

As far as I know nobody has asked Fairfax County, but I figured making  
D.C. look nice with a combination of mapping and importing would be a  
strong tool when asking other jurisdictions for data. After importing  
the DC data we were going to make a strong push to ask others.  One  
thing we've been trying to do is have residents of those counties/ 
cities ask about importing data.  I live in Loudoun County and have  
been discussing with them the possibly obtaining their data as well.

A lot of local jurisdictions seem interested I think more than  
anything they just need to be approached in the right way.

Kate


On Nov 15, 2009, at 6:50 PM, Dan Putler <dan.putler at sauder.ubc.ca>  
wrote:

> Hi Kate,
>
> Sounds good. My guess is that the data from the District is based on  
> the
> assessor parcels. Given what you said (I'm assuming you are in the
> Northern VA suburbs of DC), have you looked into whether Fairfax  
> County
> or Alexandria has released their parcel or centerline road data?
>
> Dan
>
> On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 18:43 -0500, Kate Chapman wrote:
>> Hi Dan,
>>
>> Both manual and donated data.  I've been addressing my neighborhood  
>> in
>> Virginia but Washington D.C. donated point level addresses.
>>
>> Kate Chapman
>>
>> On Nov 15, 2009, at 6:37 PM, Dan Putler <dan.putler at sauder.ubc.ca>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Kate,
>>>
>>> How have the address points been obtained? From OSM users? The  
>>> Census
>>> Bureau has collected and created a national data set of them in
>>> preparation for the 2010 Census, but for non-disclosure reasons,  
>>> they
>>> have no intention of releasing them to the public. The next possible
>>> public source of this type of information would be based on county
>>> assessor parcel data, but that is limited to those counties that  
>>> have
>>> released their parcel data (although, counties that have released
>>> address ranged centerline street data also tend to be the same ones
>>> who
>>> released their parcel data).
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
>>> On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 18:28 -0500, Kate Chapman wrote:
>>>> Dave,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Understood, I would envision it being a partially manual and
>>>> partially
>>>> automated process.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Maybe I'm confused about the address versus road information.  I
>>>> would
>>>> think the address point would be the front door of the building and
>>>> would not be a relation to the road.  So the node of the address  
>>>> and
>>>> the way of the road would not be on top of each other.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is this incorrect?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -Kate Chapman
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Dave Hansen <dave at sr71.net> wrote:
>>>>       On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 18:11 -0500, Kate Chapman wrote:
>>>>> What's wrong with doing automated addressing imports in
>>>>       situations
>>>>> where we have point level address data?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>       The issue is that it may not line up with the roads at all.
>>>>        We also
>>>>       need to ensure that we *find* the roads to which it refers to
>>>>       ensure
>>>>       that we get the relations done properly.
>>>>
>>>>       If people find a way to do that, it shouldn't be a problem.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Or are you just referring to not importing the addressing
>>>>       that is
>>>>> available for the Tiger data?
>>>>
>>>>       -- Dave
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Dan Putler
>>> Sauder School of Business
>>> University of British Columbia
>>>
> -- 
> Dan Putler
> Sauder School of Business
> University of British Columbia
>