Adam Schreiber wrote: > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Theodore Book <tb...@libero.it> wrote: >> I have been playing around with the TIGER 2008 data, which, for some of >> the counties around Atlanta seems to be much better than the old data. >> If I import it for some of the counties, though, I would like to import >> the addresses in a format that would be usable for routing software. >> The most popular schema seems to be the Karlsruhe Schema, but making use >> of it would require generating three OSM ways for each TIGER way - one >> on either side to represent the houses on that side of the road. That >> seems unnecessarily complex, but there does not seem to be any widely >> accepted schema that places the data on the way itself. Does anyone >> have any thoughts on that question? > > I think you're spot on about the Karlsruhe schema. In general it's a > good fit for the US. Ideally, instead of creating ways to interpolate > along we'd get parcel and/or building data freed from somewhere and > put the addresses on those.
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