[Talk-us] Any mappers local to NYC/LI?

[Katie Filbert]

On Nov 16, 2011, at 12:18 PM, Skye Book <skye.book at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm doing a ton of work with the data made available from the city  
> as of late and a gripe from some people employed by the local  
> government about OSM is that it isn't making full use of the data  
> that the city is putting out there for consumption.

The terms of use are not quite right I think.

Data like building footprints would sure be nice though I'd be  
cautious about dumping data in that the community could do a good job  
of collecting and maintaining.

The community-- that's the other issue and think it would be important  
to get the local mappers group going more with mapping parties. I did  
one with Wikimedia NYC folks and maybe we/they could do another but it  
will take more than that. There also is an OSM NYC meetup.com group  
which could be reactivated

Cheers,
Katie


> Indeed, there is a ton of information that we can bringing into the  
> dataset (streetlights, building outlines for the five boroughs, etc).
>
> Anyone is interested in ganging up on this, or discussing the NYC  
> data situation with researchers as well as GIS analysts would be  
> most welcome.  Any takers?
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