Eric, Thanks for the info.
I might be mistaken, but I recall looking at the public "crowd sourcing" pilot. I noticed that a lot of edits submitted by the public were sourced from copyright or license restricted sources. There were comments from contributors like "per Google" or "per yellowpages.com." I wonder what the USGS's stance on these sources is? Mike On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Eric Wolf <ebw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm probably not supposed to email you all but I hate seeing unanswered > questions. > > We have official publications about the project: > > FactSheet: http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/fs20113103 > Phase 1: http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr20111136 > > An OFR on Phase 2 is due out any day now. Watch the RSS feed here: > http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/#home > > Phase 1 was purely an evaluation of the OSM software. Phase 2 was a test to > see if the data could be integrated into The National Map. Phase 3 is a test > to see what it would be like in production. > > We switched to Potlatch2 at the end of Phase 1. Our version of P2 is > modified (slightly) to only allow the very small number of structure types > (nodes) that we need for The National Map to be added. In fact, we went > through the entire system and disabled features that didn't fit our needs. > The result is a much simpler user experience. > > We are hoping to submit the data to OSM itself but we are very sensitive to > the issues of bulk uploads from "authoritative" data sources. We don't want > to do this until we have a good way to manage the process. One thought was > to only update the same features that are in OSM but haven't been changed. > The data we are looking at was part of the GNIS database which was bulk > uploaded into OSM in 2009. Most of that data is untouched (except for bots) > in OSM and still has the USGS feature ID (gnis:feature_id) saved in a tag. > In theory, we could automatically update only the data from our system with > matching gnis:feature_id tags in OSM that haven't been touched by humans. > The rest of the data would have to managed manually. > > We do create a nightly planet file: > http://navigator.er.usgs.gov/planet/planet.osm > > Feel free to explore the data. You can also explore the system without > creating an account using "guest" as the user ID and "usgsguest" as the > password. Changes from that account are reverted nightly. > > -Eric > > -=--=---=----=----=---=--=-=--=---=----=---=--=-=- > Eric B. Wolf 720-334-7734 > > > > > > > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Charlotte Wolter <techl...@techlady.com> > wrote: >> >> Ian, >> >> I read through their Web site. >> They used Potlatch 1 for two pilot projects in "crowdsourcing" >> (yes, they used the word) topographic data. Apparently they were pleased >> enough with the results to plan to move ahead, at some point, with >> crowdsourced topographic mapping. I hope they have taken a look at Potlatch >> 2. >> They also mentioned OSM several times on a couple of Web pages, >> which was nice publicity. >> >> Charlotte >> >> >> >> At 02:50 PM 7/22/2012, you wrote: >> >> Yep. They announced it prematurely. They'll have more information about it >> in the near future. >> >> On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Adam Schreiber < >> adam.schreiber+...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Ian, >> >> The link appears to be dead. Was the video taken down? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Adam >> >> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Ian Dees <ian.d...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi everyone, >> > >> > I saw a tweet from @USGS today mentioning that the National Map Corps >> > are >> > starting up again. If you don't know what the National Map Corps is, >> > think >> > of it like "OpenStreetMap for the US Government". Volunteer mappers >> > correcting and adding to the topo maps all over the country. I'm sure >> > there >> > are others with much more information, but it was a pretty epic project >> > and >> > is the source for lots of the free and public domain data we use to this >> > day. >> > >> > For the last year or two (or three?) Eric Wolf's been working to adapt >> > the >> > OpenStreetMap stack to the USGS's needs, and it looks like it that work >> > has >> > finally been released. Check out this video for more information: >> > http://gallery.usgs.gov/videos/552. Skip to 4:10 or so to see it in >> > action. >> > >> > Hopefully Eric and others will respond here and tell us more about it! >> > >> > -Ian >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Talk-us mailing list >> > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org >> > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >> > >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-us mailing list >> Talk-us@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >> >> Charlotte Wolter >> 927 18th Street Suite A >> Santa Monica, California >> 90403 >> +1-310-597-4040 >> techl...@techlady.com >> Skype: thetechlady >> >> The Four Internet Freedoms >> Freedom to visit any site on the Internet >> Freedom to access any content or service that is not illegal >> Freedom to attach any device that does not interfere with the network >> Freedom to know all the terms of a service, particularly any that would >> affect the first three freedoms. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-us mailing list >> Talk-us@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
