[Talk-us] Importing addresses from TIGER

[Ian Dees]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Mike N <niceman at att.net> wrote:

> On 12/12/2013 11:50 AM, Ian Dees wrote:
>
>> Another option is to spend time to collect address data from local
>> municipalities and work on methodically importing them. I started this
>> process and have collected a couple hundred address datasets here:
>>
>
>  Are all those negotiated as OSM license-compatible?  The #1 stumbling
> block I see on the imports list is getting the data owners to declare their
> data as having an OSM-acceptable set of license terms.
>

No, this is just a list of potential data sources. As I said, you would
need to go through the import process if you want to take the time to
import these to OSM (which involves asking about license).


>   If that's an easy process, I think I might be able to add from my local
> county; they have finally started releasing free subsets of data.


Let me know which county you're in and a link to the data and I'll add it.
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