On 12/26/17 7:36 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: > Richard, > Have you seen the data? When I was planning the Seattle building and > address import, we looked at two different address data sets. > Seattle's had every possible address. For example a corner house would > have a housenumber for both streets. The counties was better but > didn't have unit numbers. Without unit numbers there were a bunch of > duplicate addresses, especially for places like mobile home parks. > this is just starting out; i've exchanged some email with them but will be meeting with them after the first to start discussing issues (the first, and most important, is NYS consent to the ODbL for the data.) the address data may well very county to county, as NYS is an aggregator. it would be good to develop some criteria for data quality. > Having building outlines to go with the addresses would be really nice > although it would greatly increase the difficulty of the import. If > outlines were available would you consider doing both? i would prefer it. my recollection of prior experience is that conflating building footprints with addresses outside of OSM and importing in one shot is less total work than doing the two separately. i've let them know that if at all feasible, this would be preferred. > > I'd really be interested in learning why NY State is interested in > having addresses in OSM. Can you provide any insight into their thinking? i will ask that during our first face-to-face meeting.
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