There is a very experienced OSM mapper who has extensive knowledge of NYS databases. He is Kevin Kenny and his OSM email is kevin.b.kenny+...@gmail.com
I'm pretty sure he will know something about copyright issues. I supply his email because I'm not sure if he monitors this list. On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 4:28 PM Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-us < talk-us@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > > Jul 16, 2020, 06:44 by o...@dead10ck.com: > > I found that NYS publishes GIS data in their "Clearing House", and one of > the data sets available is address points: > https://gis.ny.gov/gisdata/inventories/details.cfm?DSID=921 > > I opened the data in JOSM, and they look spatially accurate, for the most > part (I noticed some points are off for addresses that don't have recent > satellite imagery available). > > Reading up on the import guidelines, I can see that the license is > important. However, I am not able to see anything that explicitly states > one way or another what kind of license the data sets are distributed under > > Hello and thanks for checking before the import! > License is important, sadly it seems to not be specified anywhere. > > , and this whether or not it is compatible with the ODBL. I wanted to ask > if perhaps anyone else had investigated these data sets in the past, and > what their findings were. If not, is the next step to email someone and ask? > > I just looked at it and it seems that either it is not specified or I > missed it. > > If nobody will be able to locate that info then emailing specified contact > would be a good next step. > > Note > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_works_by_subnational_governments_of_the_United_States#New_York > > So unlike work of federal government it is not automatically public domain. > > On the other hand, it may be unoriginal database... Still, the preferred > version is to have an explicit > license. > > I don't have anything like an extensive plan for carrying out an import, > which is why I did not include the "authoritative" imports mailing list > yet. However, at a high level, as I am a software engineer by trade, my > plan is to write a script that reads the shapefiles and an .osm file dump > as input, does the attribute to tag transformations, and deduplicates with > the existing data by excluding any address points that already exist in any > OSM object with equivalent addr:* tags (it might also be necessary to > inspect all associatedStreet and street relations). It would produce an > .osm as output that contains nodes with just addr:* tags. This can then be > opened in JOSM and merged into the standard data layer. I'd probably start > with a single county and go from there. > > Similar things were done already so remember to check whatever existing > tools for > converting and conflation are good enough to use/modify rather than start > from scratch. > > As a disclaimer, I do this in my free time, which is in short supply, so > progress on this would likely be slow. > > Like OSM mapping in general. > > However, I would love if everyone could just search for any address and > find it. > > +1 > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > -- Dave Swarthout Homer, Alaska Chiang Mai, Thailand Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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