Hello Everybody, Last week the US import committee asked me to look into importing addresses along with our statewide Massachusetts building import. Here is what I found.
Because of 911, MassGIS (the Mass state GIS department) has been working very hard on getting a state wide address layer put together. The building layer released in November, was really created to support this address project. The layer will have an address over every structure in MA and every empty parcel. The addresses will be derived from a combination of the the L3 parcel data, tiger, warren group, msag, dot, and navteq. It will have all of the abbreviations removed (which is a required for 911). The new address layer will also have what they call "landmark name", which for OSM corresponding exactly our "name" tag. It is possible that we will also get a ton of business names too. They are contracting out field survey's to resolve any discrepancies between the various data sources. They plan on releasing the first version at the end of the summer. I don't think it would be wise to do any address importing right now in MA. A more complete data set is coming, and it is much closer to the OSM data model than the MassGIS L3 parcel data layer. If you want to learn more, this document has a lot of details. http://www.mass.gov/anf/docs/itd/services/massgis/massgis-addressing-workshop-slides-with-notes.pdf Thanks Jason. _______________________________________________ Imports-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports-us
