[Talk-us] MassGIS building conversion

[Jason Remillard]

Hi,


On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Alex Barth <alex at mapbox.com> wrote:

>
> +1 for importing this. I'm curious for a battle plan of whoever leads this
> effort, this will be a lot of work.
>

I think the plan should be to give the local mappers some time hand merge
the data in, record what towns were done by hand, then import rest of the
data with a script (or coarse not putting buildings over buildings). Most
of the towns int he state don't have local mappers, most of the state will
be done with the script.


>
> Re: license, I've heard personally from MassGIS director Christian Jacqz
> that all of Mass' GIS data is public domain based on the state's open
> policy on public records. I think this is fantastic, a link to a law or
> similar would still be useful.
>
> Is there address data that could be conflated with these buildings?
>

Yes, there is a level 3 parcel data that has addresses in it. The buildings
need to go in first, so we can do the addresses next year.

Thanks
Jason
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