In principle, address data in OSM continues to be really valuable even now that there's OpenAddresses around. For instance, you can't edit addresses on OpenAddresses. Only in OSM you have (or you can build) a community around data to maintain and update the map.
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 7:07 AM, Serge Wroclawski <[email protected]> wrote: > Eric, > > With projects like OpenAddresses, I don't personally see the value of > thousands of plain address points in OSM. If we had other data, such > as building data, which could be used to combine with, I think there's > a lot of value there, but plain address points, IMHO, are better > suited to OpenAddresses. > > - Serge > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 11:14 PM, Eric Jiang <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > This proposal is in the very early stages right now - there are still > > parts of the process that I haven't totally nailed down yet. > > > > [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import_Kokomo_address_data > > > > The city of Kokomo, Indiana has GIS data available and one of the data > > sets is address data. I'd like to eventually import this data into > > OSM. > > > > I was provided with a Shapefile containing about 36,000 points. The > > points appear to be in parcel centers and a spot check against Bing > > imagery shows that they're mostly OK. > > > > I am waiting on a response for explicit permission to use their data > > in OSM - in lieu of a pre-existing policy, I am requesting a statement > > using the language on the wiki. Other than that, I see a pretty > > straightforward way to import the vast majority of the data. The draft > > of the proposal on the wiki [1] has more information about the data, > > along with links to a sample of the raw data on Github.[2] > > > > Any input appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > Eric > > > > [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import_Kokomo_address_data > > [2] https://github.com/erjiang/kokomo-addresses > > > > -- > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Imports-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports-us >
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