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

[Serge Wroclawski]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Skye Book <skye.book at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mapping party sounds great, hopefully its a warm winter!  I'll be around
> over the holidays and can put time into getting this together.  I've never
> arranged one before, though, so any veterans would be very much appreciated!

I suggest starting simple: Find a location we can use, and find a
time, and email me or the list and we'll do it.

> Yes, I would definitely want to be sure that any information going into OSM
> isn't causing legal agitations for people.

> The only legal provisions I've been able to find for the data hosted on NYC
> OpenData (previously the NYC DataMine) hosted on Socrata is located
> here: http://www.nyc.gov/html/data/terms.html
> I've pasted the bulk of it below with the interesting parts bolded and some
> personal interpretations marked in red.  Suffice it to say, the current
> stuff is completely unworkable as has been mentioned before.

This discussion really belongs on the imports list.

- Serge