[Talk-us] all our addresses are belong to you
Steve Coast
steve at asklater.com
Fri Mar 11 22:56:07 GMT 2011
did you do that? I'm curious to look at addresses near me and help import
On 3/2/2011 12:59 PM, Ian Dees wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm planning on converting these to OSM format in the coming hours and
> dividing them up into chunks of some size that can be relatively
> easily checked by humans.
>
> I'll post to the list and to that page with the chunks later.
>
> -Ian
>
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Flambeaux at gmail.com
> <mailto:Flambeaux at gmail.com> <flambeaux at gmail.com
> <mailto: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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