[Talk-us] Integrating our open source data into OSM

[Richard Fairhurst]

Sean Lindsey wrote:
> I do want to produce something that is useful for
> open source and OSM/its community

Let me join in the thanks for making this available.

Even though it might not be suitable for direct import into OSM (for legal
and/or community reasons), I wonder whether it might be suitable for seeding
better POI mapping in the US.

Minh Nguyen wrote the other year about POI deserts:
    https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Minh%20Nguyen/diary/35646

If we know from your data that (to take an absolutely random example)
Potlatch, ID[1] has a bank, a convenience store, a cafe and a pharmacy, but
that none of these are mapped in OSM, this should be a prompt for mappers to
go out, find and map them, whether from direct survey or from
Mapillary/OpenStreetCam. The authors of those apps could even use this
information to 'gamify' collection of new POIs.

It would need a bit of careful thought about the legalities: my outline
understanding is that it should be ok as long as there is no direct copying
and that the data comparison is sufficiently abstracted (e.g. number of POIs
compared within a 1km square) to ensure that genuine survey/cam-mapping has
to take place. But LWG could no doubt advise further.

If done right, I'd hope this could be the spur to greatly improving OSM POI
coverage in the US.

cheers
Richard

[1] yes yes, well spotted. http://www.cityofpotlatch.org/




--
Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/USA-f5284732.html