On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Brian Cavagnolo <bcavagn...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hey guys, > > In a previous thread on parcel data, some people expressed interest in > participating in creating some sort of open repository for parcel > data. I was imagining a conference call or something to discuss next > steps, but I think we can advance with email. I'm imagining that it > makes sense to separate the data gathering process from the data > standardization/import process. > > Regarding the data gathering, the main objective is to gather recent > raw data, licensing terms, and meta data from jurisdictions in > whatever form they make it available, organize it in a dumb directory > structure. I was just going to set up an FTP (read-write) and HTTP > (read-only) server to get this going. Are there any > recommendations/opinions on a longer-term approach here? Custom > webapp? Off-the-shelf webapp? Somebody mentioned a git repository. > I think the easiest thing to do right now is to collect a list of URLs and contact information for where this data might be. When it's easily obtainable we should download it and collate it. I've got a directory on the OSM US server with a few large chunks of data. I'm happy to give you an account if you want to continue filling that up. As far as metadata about this stuff I think a spreadsheet will have to do for now until we figure out commonalities between the available metadata. I suppose knowing the vintage, license, contact information, and location of the file(s) containing parcel data is the most important part. > > Regarding standardization/import, I was planning on setting up an > empty instance of the rails port as a test bed. Then participating > users could point JOSM and other tools at this alternative rails port > to examine, edit, and import parcel data. We could also provide > planet-style dumps and mapnik tiles. The idea is that we would have a > safe place to screw up and learn. Does this sound like a reasonable > direction? I don't think we should worry about importing or standardizing into anything yet. That step should happen once we have a pretty good size sample of the data so we can figure out what's available.
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