[Talk-us] all our addresses are belong to you
Steve Coast
steve at asklater.com
Fri Mar 11 23:05:59 GMT 2011
huh...
please do, would be fun to look
On 3/11/2011 3:01 PM, Ian Dees wrote:
> I did, but I held off because most of the data wasn't very useful
> (points in the middle of the road or in the middle of a field, etc.)
>
> When I get home I can upload the files I have.
>
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Steve Coast <steve at asklater.com
> <mailto:steve at asklater.com>> wrote:
>
> 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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