[Talk-us] MassGIS building conversion

[Jason Remillard]

Hi John,

I am not signing up for the import! I might have time next summer, but not
right now.

But, in general, I don't think the MassGIS ID's should be included since
they are just the center of mass of the buildings, and there is no
indication that they will be preserving them as they update the data set.
Even if they did preserve them, it is not really useful to OSM because we
already have a ton of hand drawn buildings in the state that will need to
get managed in any future updates. So, right now, the only tag in the data
is building=yes.

Thanks
Jason.


On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 2:05 PM, the Old Topo Depot <oldtopos at novacell.com>wrote:

> Hi Jason,
>
> If the MassGIS building/address objects have MassGIS IDs are you planning
> to preserve them in the OSM DB ?
>
> Best,
>
> On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Jason Remillard <remillard.jason at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi Serge,
>>
>> I don't see a license related to this data, only a copyright notice on
>>> the page. Is there a separate license somewhere that says this data is
>>> usable?
>>>
>>
>> Like the federal goverment, maps are considered part of the public record
>> in Mass, and therefor are in the public domain (no copyright). No license
>> is needed for the data. OSM has already confirmed this directly with the
>> MassGIS people.
>>
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MassGIS
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> > Since it is likely that next year we will be importing this data into
>>> OSM to
>>> > support addresses, I figured it would be useful to convert the files
>>> to OSM
>>> > format and share them.
>>>
>>> What is the script you're plannng to use for conversion? What is your
>>> mapping scheme? What is your plan regarding conflation with existing
>>> data? What is your plan regarding updates?
>>>
>>
>> - I will put up my ugly little script shortly.
>> - schema, building = yes
>> - conflation, don't import a building that overlaps with an existing
>> building in OSM.
>>
>> I was thinking that this was a precursory step for the import. I don't
>> have the time right now to lead an import myself. Regardless of who
>> actually does it, I think getting a lot of eyes on the data is the best
>> starting point for whatever happens next.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Jason.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> - Serge
>>>
>>
>>
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>
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