Hello, I am a newbie from Indiana. I have been disappointed by the quality of some maps, and I have searched a little for an external source. I have contacted IndianaMap (indianamap.org) and asked about the availability of their data. Could anyone advise, based on the forwarded discussion, if IndianaMap data can be used for OpenStreetMap? If so, how would one go about it?
Thank you, Marcin Forwarded conversation Subject: Question about the IndianaMap ------------------------ From: Marcin Zalewski <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:15 To: info <[email protected]> Hello, What is the copyright status of IndianaMap? Is it in public domain, or is it released under a license? In particular, I am wondering if the data can be used in a project like OpenStreetMap (www.openstreetmap.org). Thank you, Marcin ---------- From: Philip Worrall <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:15 To: Marcin Zalewski <[email protected]> Marcin, Yes it can! All data we currently provide is in the Public Domain. There are no distribution restrictions, but we would like credit/citation for the IndianaMap when our data is used. We also provide full FGDC metadata with each layer. We currently share our point address data with openaddresses.org, but I had not yet shared our centerline data with openstreetmap.org because I do not feel it is good enough yet. We are currently harvesting monthly updates of road centerline, parcel, point address and boundary data from 75 of 92 Indiana Counties. Within the next few months we will be up to 85 counties, but we ultimately will still have 7 holes in our statewide data set for those seven counties that have chosen not to share their data with the IndianaMap. As part of our monthly harvesting process, we homogenize the data from each county into a single schema and statewide layer, but we ARE NOT currently doing any graphic or attribute clean up of this data (it is being published as-is). For example, counties are not edge matched. We are working on a QA/QC process to help identify graphic and non-graphic errors, discrepancies and omissions, and report these back to each county for them to correct in their source data, but we have no jurisdiction over them doing this. Regarding the IndianaMap, over the next year we will be upgrading the IndianaMap from ESRI ArcIMS to AGS. This will allow us to significantly expand IndianaMap functionality and provide broader access to our data layers through additional web services. (We currently provide access to our data through OGC WMS.) I hope this information helps! Thanks, Phil ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Phil Worrall, Executive Director Indiana Geographic Information Council 777 Indiana Ave. Indianapolis, IN 46202-3102 cell: 317.504.4389 office: 317.489.0091 [email protected] ---------- From: Marcin Zalewski <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:26 To: Philip Worrall <[email protected]> Thank you Phil. I am very new to the whole mapping idea, and I have only recently gotten interested in the OpenStreetMap project. I have asked about IndianaMap because the maps of Indiana in OpenStreetMap leave much to be desired. From that perspective, I think that any data, even if not perfect, would be an improvement. It seems that OpenStreetMaps project cannot easily incorporate attribution to the sources of data in its output. They strive to provide maps that are not stringed with any restrictions at all, including having to provide attribution. Thus, I have two more questions to you. Is it OK to use IndianaMap data without attribution in a project where attribution cannot be provided because of licensing requirements (is the requirement a part of a license, or simply "asking nicely")? Is it OK to forward this discussion to OpenStreetMap community to give them an idea about availability of the data? Regards, Marcin ---------- From: Philip Worrall <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:19 To: Marcin Zalewski <[email protected]> Marcin, A credit/citation for the IndianaMap need be nothing more than a footnote somewhere. For example when you zoom into Indiana on Google & Bing an IndianaMap source credit is displayed when our orthophotography is being viewed. Feel free to pass this information on. I'd be interested in the feedback. Thanks, Phil _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
