On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Gregory Arenius <greg...@arenius.com>wrote:
> San Francisco has a website at datasf.org that has a lot of good geodata > on it. The current licence isn't acceptable for using any of the data but > they might be willing to give us permission to use it. > > Some of the datasets that I thought were interesting were city > lots<http://gispub02.sfgov.org/website/sfshare/catalog/citylots.zip>, > addresses<http://gispub02.sfgov.org/website/sfshare/catalog/sfaddresses.zip>, > neighborhoods<http://gispub02.sfgov.org/website/sfshare/catalog/planning_neighborhoods_tiybi.zip>, > landuse<http://gispub02.sfgov.org/website/sfshare/catalog/planning_landuse.zip>, > public > lands<http://gispub02.sfgov.org/website/sfshare/catalog/sflnds_public.zip>, > street > centerlines<http://gispub02.sfgov.org/website/sfshare/catalog/stclines.zip>, > speed > limits<http://gispub02.sfgov.org/website/sfshare/catalog/dpt_speedlimits.zip>and > the bike > network<http://gispub02.sfgov.org/website/sfshare/catalog/dpt_bike_network.zip> > . > > We have good street data for San Francisco so the street centerline file > would mostly be useful to check for errors and inform us about which streets > really don't have a name. > > could be converted to osm files and used as background layer in JOSM. Then comparing visually with osm data is easy. I think openJump can also do some comparison automatically but need to check > We need addresses if we want to have usable data for routing programs. The > addresses file has them in point format. The city lots file also has > addresses or address ranges for each parcel. Has anybody done imports of > similar address data? If so, did you keep it in a point format or convert > it into the "parallel ways" format? How did things turn out? I would > really like to put that address data into OSM if I can get permission from > the city to use it for that purpose. > > haven't done an import but some manual address data in my region. doing the import is easy for point formats > The speed limits would be useful for routing as well. > > definitely great, needs matching with road network. some work to do ... > Also, just to be clear, even if the city grants permission for us to use > this data I certainly don't plan on just 'dumping' it into OSM. We already > have good data for San Francisco. I'm more interested in using it to refine > what we already have and plan on taking it slow and doing any imports the > right way. > > I'd love to hear any thoughts or ideas or what other locals would like to > see our map have. > > I'm probably going to be meeting with someone from the city next week to > discuss the licence issue and ways we can collaborate. Anything in > particular you folks are interested in? > > Cheers, > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > >
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