Re: [Talk-us] Importing highway surface tags

2012-12-21 Thread Andrew Guertin
On 12/20/2012 05:03 PM, Adam Franco wrote: > * Has anyone located a good source for state or national road surface data? > The TIGER data doesn't seem to include surface information as far as I can > tell. The VCGI EmergencyE911_RDS file has a field for this. Unfortunately, 58773 out of 64302 valu

[Talk-us] Import Committee Meetup Notes

2012-12-21 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Hi all, This is just a quick roundup with some notes on last night's committee meeting. We had a good number of people show up, and we had a very useful discussion on the utility and concerns about imports, the current status of US imports, the role of the DWG, what kind of help we could offer im

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] shawnee county landuse

2012-12-21 Thread Mike Dupont
I have added the info to the wiki https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Kansas/Shawnee_County/Import also the scripts are updated. I am been manually replacing the plot info with just the building, so the only info being imported are the house numbers and zip codes and the lbcs tags. Also for the n

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] shawnee county landuse

2012-12-21 Thread Toby Murray
Just saw some of this going in and decided to take a look. Specifically this node: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/2078174875 - I think there is pretty good consensus that we don't need addr:state and addr:country tags - The addr:street tag has odd capitalization - The building=* tag typi

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] shawnee county landuse

2012-12-21 Thread Mike Dupont
Yes, I am going to be working on this. We can remove the US and KS easily. Not all is perfect, Some of the nodes dont have a house number. That farm node you mentioned is an empty farmyard. http://www.snco.us/Ap/R_prop/Listing.asp?PRCL_ID=0282701001001010 It does not have a house number, but it do

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] shawnee county landuse

2012-12-21 Thread Paul Norman
You are proposing importing both the code *and* the description of the code. Why both? For that matter, why either at all? A user isn’t going to know what to do with it when editing the other tags. I can’t see a link to the license on the wiki. Could you please provide one. A lack of a lic

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] shawnee county landuse

2012-12-21 Thread Mike Dupont
Well we can remove the names of the lbcs codes, I left them for now because it is very useful for editing. I am using them to search while editing etc. Well the amount of data we are extracting is very very limited, I see this as basic fair use and factual information. The county gis officer knows

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] shawnee county landuse

2012-12-21 Thread Paul Norman
To be clear, you do *not* have a license for this data but are relying on fair use and your opinion of what is copyrighted? Also, are you relying on the fact that others haven’t gotten into trouble as support for this import being legally okay? From: Mike Dupont [mailto:jamesmikedup...@goog

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] shawnee county landuse

2012-12-21 Thread Mike Dupont
I dont think that zipcodes and housenumbers count as copyrightable in usa. I am not importing the entire database, and I am not copying the shapes there. Also I am matching them up with bing, I really have doubts about the data being protected in any meaningful way. I will do more research with the