[OSM-talk] all our addresses are belong to you

[Matt Williams]

On 2 March 2011 21:54, Flambeaux at gmail.com <flambeaux at gmail.com> wrote:
> MapQuest is providing several address files that contain user-provided
> latitude and longitude locations across the world. Our users provided
> these exact locations to us so that they could be mapped correctly on
> our MapQuest maps.
>
> There are currently three (3) main files - one for the United States,
> one for Canada and one for Europe.  More information can be found on
> our wiki page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MapQuest/Critical_Addresses
>
> We didn't want to just import these addresses directly into OSM, but
> wanted them to be available to anyone that wanted to have them.  To be
> clear:
>
> 1. these addresses are user provided
> 2. there is a high degree of ground-truth from these users
> 3. they WANTED to be in the data and be correctly mapped
> 4. we've checked with our lawyers, and yes, you can have them - UNENCUMBERED!

Fantastic.

Perhaps the best way to incorporate this data would be some sort of
data layer that mappers can load for their local area in JOSM? Since
this data set doesn't have too many data points and obviously a
straight import won't work it might be a good approach. I've heard
ideas for this method mentioned before but I'm unsure if it's been
done?

Also, can we expect an extension of this data set in the future as
more users add their addresses?

-- 
Matt Williams
http://milliams.com