I'm working on license cleaning state/county borders in the U.S. Most of them have been pretty easy but Washington state has a lot more license taint so I'm looking at re-importing some of the ways. Fortunately the relations are clean so I'm only looking replacing (some of) the geometry. The best source I found was the Washington State Department of Ecology. Their copyright page seemed clear at first but then pnorman on IRC muddied the waters and suggested I get some input from a wider audience. The page in question is here: http://www.ecy.wa.gov/copyright.html
Seems like a basic attribution requirement. But of course that gets complicated with derived works and whatnot. I guess I'll send someone at the department a quick email too and see what they say. As for the rest of the import, the data can be viewed here. It is the "Counties" data set and the "County_arc.shp" file inside of that. http://www.ecy.wa.gov/services/gis/data/data.htm#c my initial ogr2osm translation file can be seen here: https://github.com/ToeBee/ogr2osm-translations/blob/master/wa_counties.py Since I'm only using the geometry, it is pretty much braindead. I will have to manually add the generated ways into the appropriate boundary relations. I simplified the ways in JOSM with a max error setting of 5 meters. This took the total node count from just under 50,000 to 18,500 although I won't be using all of them since some of the ways are already relicensable. The geometry matches up very well with what is already in OSM. Where it diverges it seems that the new data is better (smoother curves, follows visible features more closely) Paul suggested removing the source:ref tag from the ways and putting it in the changeset instead. Thoughts? Toby _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
