[Talk-us] Potential Import of Addresses for Thurston County, WA, USA

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Is specifying source in changeset
or on import page on Wiki qualifying
as crediting them?

Because doing this is actually required.

26 Aug 2020, 02:07 by thekingofravens at disroot.org:

> Alright I have an update:
>
> After an email chain with Thurston County GeoData Center, I finally got
> explicit permission to use the data in open street map. 
>
> "Hello Raven,
>
> You can use the data in Open Street Maps and credit GeoData UNLESS you
> change the data in any way. If you change the data you can still use it
> in Open Street Maps but CANNOT credit GeoData and the County. We make
> no warrantees about the data temporally, spatially, or in terms of
> attribution.
>
> Please let me know if this helps to clarify the disclaimer or if you
> still have questions.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Leslie Carman
> GIS Analyst I"
>
> I can provide the entire email chain if required but this is the part
> that matters. As for the terms they gave me, what is the best way of handling this? My instinct is just to, in some very minor way, ensure every piece of data is modified somehow so future mappers do not have to worry about it. Does just adding it to OSM count as modification, since we convert the data fields?
>
> At this point, I would like to propose that we import this data, as
> this includes rural towns and unincorporated thurston
> county.
> I would divide the building footprints into small blocks to avoid well
> mapped areas.
> As for addresses, because they are points and there are so few
> addresses in my region, I feel like we could be more aggresive about
> that import, although how much so I am not certain.
>
>
> Also @Clifford Snow if you see this I would appreciate whatever you
> have to teach about imports. 
>
> Sincerely,
> Raven
>
>
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