tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8640820447881143716.post7451205674740072803..comments2008-10-07T19:37:50.567-07:00Simon Ilyushchenkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17779988234486566495noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8640820447881143716.post-18003323025851377612008-10-07T19:37:00.000-07:002008-10-07T19:37:00.000-07:00I have no doubt that none of them will blindly take data from the outside. However, if they had a copy of the data with supposedly correct geolocations, it will be much less work for them to go and verify the cooordinates then to position the bridges themselves.Simon Ilyushchenkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17779988234486566495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8640820447881143716.post-31855914676310915972008-10-07T12:01:00.000-07:002008-10-07T12:01:00.000-07:00FHWA gets yearly database/reporting submissions from the State DOT Bridge Maintenance Units, and all this State DOT data then gets aggregated into the National Bridge Inventory database by FHWA. I cannot imagine any of these entities would be willing to accept crowd-sourced location information. In fact, I can just see many of them nearly having a stroke thinking of how to deal with that possibility :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8640820447881143716.post-66522200717022096972008-10-05T20:15:00.000-07:002008-10-05T20:15:00.000-07:00It seems to be possible to use crowdsourcing to fix the locations if I add the data to openstreetmap.org layers, but it's not clear whether the updates will be accepted by the data owners.Simon Ilyushchenkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17779988234486566495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8640820447881143716.post-59081759130858656462008-10-05T20:08:00.000-07:002008-10-05T20:08:00.000-07:00Really neat data, and interesting to see what's in my area that has issues. It's unfortunate that the locations are so far off...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com