[Talk-us] FW: [osm-professional] Regional Street Centerline Solution - Minneapolis- St. Paul metro area - RFP

[Ian Dees]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 7:39 AM, McGuire, Matthew <
Matt.McGuire at metc.state.mn.us> wrote:

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> To who may concern in the OSM community (*please excuse any double
> postings*).
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> The OSM community is encouraged to consider offering a proposal in response
> to the RFP proposed at
> http://www.metrocouncil.org/doing_business/contracting/1259541.pdf.  The
> geographic extent to the seven-county, Minneapolis St. Paul metropolitan
> area and that of the 20+ adjoining counties in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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> Hi talk-us: For those of you who might have skipped over this simply
because it seems difficult to do, I ask that you at least skim over the
sections in Exhibit 1 of the PDF. As OSM gets more attention from groups
interested in using it, it's important to realize that the things requested
in this PDF aren't all that crazy and probably would make for a good source
of ideas for improvements to OSM's infrastructure.

For example:
- The proposal requires unique, persistent IDs for landmarks/points of
interest. OSM does not have an accepted way of storing persistent IDs.
- Addressing information (even if it is address ranges) is a necessity.
Anything we can do to make entering address information easier and more
interesting would increase the usefulness of OSM for a much wider range of
people.
- Updates and changes that are accepted into and created from the dataset
need to be stored somehow in a "status database". This sounds a lot like our
history page, but the history page is full of changesets that don't have
changes in the region. As has been discussed before, a tool to view a "real"
history for an area would be useful.

Having said that, does anyone want to work with me on a proposal, even if it
only ends up giving us feedback on our data from a "real" external group?
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