[Talk-us] US Addressing

[Jeff Meyer]

Does anyone have any success stories of asking localities to open up
previously copyrighted data? I'm going down the "just ask nicely for
*really* open data" path here in Seattle, but have yet to hear back from
the authorities. It seems that having a list of other cities that have
opened up and shared data would be a good reference tool when going to ask
for looser restrictions. - Jeff


On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Brian May <bmay at mapwise.com> wrote:

>  On 11/28/2012 6:35 PM, Ian Dees wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
>  So SteveC's blog post sparked a bit of conversation today:
> http://stevecoast.com/2012/11/28/openstreetmap-addressable/
>
>  I'd love to see OSM US lead the way on collecting high quality
> addressing data from as many places as possible and throw it in to OSM. To
> that end I started with this spreadsheet here:
>
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsVnlPsfrhUIdEVZTzVFalFYYnlvTkc0R05wcUpsWVE
>
>  I think we should crowd-source an effort to collect as much local
> addressing data as possible, convert it to OSM format, and import it.
> Obviously we should do it in a controlled manner and follow the usual
> import guidelines, but a *large* part of the work is in collecting the
> data in the first place and convincing municipalities to license it to us
> in a compatible manner.
>
>  Is anyone else interested in this? I could use some help gathering
> volunteers to the cause.
>
>  -Ian
>
>
>
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>  I support this 1000%. 2013 should be the year of the addresses for OSM in
> the US. Addresses are sorely needed in a big way. And there's tons of
> accurate info that local governments have spent millions collecting already
> (could be hundreds of millions). I was just reading an old thread from last
> year on importing address info based on parcels. I can help in many areas
> of Florida. GIS data in FL is essentially public domain. We have very
> liberal open records laws. I already have parcels for the whole state,
> which all include site addresses (many have city and zipcode as well) as
> well as address points for several counties. There's a few counties with
> building outlines as well. For those, we could do some pre-processing to
> attach addresses to buildings and import that, at least for the counties
> where individual address points are not available and for parcels with one
> building. Multiple buildings and addresses per parcel are another issue.
>
> In the spreadsheet, would it make more sense to have the records by
> county, and split out into cities where necessary? In Florida, its the
> county govmts and county property appraisers that create / maintain parcels
> and addresses databases. I know that is not the case in some NE states,
> though.
>
> Brian
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Jeff Meyer
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