[Talk-us] Portland data

2008-07-16 Thread SteveC
Dear all

Adam wrote to me about possible Public Domain Portland, Oregon data  
that we could import:



 Thanks for emailing me again. I talked to someone with the city, and  
 he seemed to think I needed to contact Metro ( http://www.metro-region.org/ 
  ), about GIS datasets. Metro has a page at 
 http://www.oregonmetro.gov/index.cfm/go/by.web/id=593 
  where they talk about GIS datasets that can be purchased. I was  
 planning to call them and ask about whether the information was  
 public domain (as most of it should be, unless it was done by  
 private contractors) and if it was, why they were selling it. I  
 haven't gotten around to contacting them yet. I got distracted by  
 school and inquiries to the US Forest Service (which I've posted  
 about on dev@) about getting GIS data for national forests in the  
 US. That, at least, looks promising. I'll put calling Metro on my to- 
 do list.


We at CloudMade could put some resources to get this imported, but I  
need to know a) if it's Public Domain and b) if it's better data than  
what we have.

Can anyone (especially anyone local to Portand but it's not crucial)  
take some time to look and see?

Also, any other data in the US that fits that description please let  
me know about and we can possibly help get it imported.

Best

Steve


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Re: [Talk-us] Portland data

2008-07-16 Thread Alex S.
SteveC wrote:
 Also, any other data in the US that fits that description please let  
 me know about and we can possibly help get it imported.

The State of Washington has quite a lot of publicly available GIS data, 
some of which seems to have a compatible license.

http://wagic.wa.gov/washdat.htm


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Re: [Talk-us] Portland data

2008-07-16 Thread Dave Hansen
On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 07:57 +0100, SteveC wrote:
 Can anyone (especially anyone local to Portand but it's not crucial)  
 take some time to look and see?

Adam says:

 I called Metro today, and they say their data is not public domain, so
 I think that makes it unusable on OSM. Oh well.
 
 Adam

:)

-- Dave


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