[Talk-us] parcel data in OSM

[Jason Remillard]

Hi,

> * Another is, the threat of importing crappy TIGER ranges is motivating people
> to go  look at available county data. That is fantastic. So as Ian alluded
> to pushing the  conversation forward is itself a motivator

The reason why I pushed the building import is that I am worried about
somebody else importing the tiger address ranges in MA. We have great
address data available in the MA L3 parcels. However, the buildings
need to go in first, so the addresses can go on the buildings. Given
the controversy, I figured it is likely to not be to discussed
publicly until whomever is working it is pretty far along in preparing
it. Once they stick their neck out on the list, they will likely want
to finish it as soon as possible to minimize the hazing time. If the
addresses are already in MA, they will obviously skip us. For
everybody that is asking what is the rush on the building import, now
you know. So, yes Steve's plan worked perfectly....

I agree with Steve, that if you can't search for an address and expect
it to work most of the time, the map is really not useful for most
people. It is kind of basic expectation of what a map does.

The quality of the imported road data in MA is very high. I don't
think the people who are mapping in MA are at all unhappy that it is
in the db.

The quality of the building from MassGIS that we are working on
importing is also quite high. It is much better than the 5000
buildings I traced out by hand this fall, I wish I did not trace any
of them and just imported them in December.

Thanks
Jason