[OSM-talk] Parcel data

[Pieren]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
Hi Antony,

Here in France, we also have access to the land registry WMS for the
whole country (only raster images, not the shapefiles excepted for one
"county" who released also the parcels as shapefiles).
We use this source for buildings, street names and addresses but the
data are not always up-to-date. We decided to not import parcels
because we don't see the interest for the project. It is difficult to
maintain (many parcels are modified daily - merged or split at the
scale of the country), it is not verifiable
(http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Verifiability) and it does not say
anything about the landuse in our case (excepted for the buildings
footprints and cemeteries).
But I can only speak for my country. I can understand the temptation
to import everything when you have a bunch of geodata available but
ask yourself if it is really valuable for OSM (I don't have the
answer).
Pieren