On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 7:07 AM, Serge Wroclawski <[email protected]> wrote: > With projects like OpenAddresses, I don't personally see the value of > thousands of plain address points in OSM.
Address data in OSM is useful because, like other kinds of OSM data, it's integrated into one set of data. * It helps visitors to openstreetmap.org find locations. * It helps all consumers of OSM data, including Nominatim, and OSRM. * It helps the customers of various for-profit OSM data providers * It can be merged or aligned with other features * Likewise, it provides a scaffold for future contributors, who can add POIs and buildings to existing address points * There are already many examples of good address imports, including a great talk at SOTM US '14 by Toby Murray We could remove many types of features from OSM into their own projects (OpenHydrants, anyone?) and leave the aggregation and integration up to third parties. But I think this debate could grow much larger than this thread can accommodate. I should make the disclaimer that free and accurate address data for geocoding is useful for my company, and we are happy to contribute what we can to OSM if the community finds it useful. Eric -- Eric Jiang, DoubleMap Suite 300W | 748 E. Bates Street | Indianapolis, IN 46202 www.doublemap.com | Office +1(855) 463-6655 _______________________________________________ Imports-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports-us
