For those of you interested in more info on the revised PSI directive: http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/pillar-i-digital-single-market/action-3-open-public-data-resources-re-use
2014-03-28 0:04 GMT+01:00 Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org>: > Hi, > > On 27.03.2014 23:14, Johan C wrote: > > Yep. Germany is the largest: 40M. > > The assumption "one household == one address" is only valid for half of > these 40 million; the other half lives in building types where several > households share one address. > > Also, I don't share Johan's belief that all of Europe will automatically > have free address data by July 2015 - to me, the directive seems to > contain more loopholes than Swiss cheese. But I wouldn't mind to be > wrong on this one. > > Regarding importing such open data into OSM, I'm happy that it can be > collected and kept in OpenAddresses until such time as a local community > wants to use it in their mapping. Past import efforts, even when planned > as a "community import", occasionally had power mappers from hundreds of > kilometres away import tens of thousands of objects when the plan had > originally been to have the local community do things in their own time > - all just to get it over with quickly. OpenAddresses offers the chance > of taking out this pressure and let mappers import data in *their* local > area when *they* are ready. > > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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