The wiki now contains updated files that set the postcode and add a fixme tag to a building in case it already had the number that does not match the official information from SAM.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Boston_Street_Address_Manage ment_%28SAM%29_Import#OSM_Data_Files On Tue, 2016-03-15 at 12:52 -0400, Roman Yepishev wrote: > (re-posting to both mailing lists since I failed to subscribe to > imports@ before sending) > > Hello OpenStreetMap folks, > > TL;DR: import wiki page: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/B > os > ton_Street_Address_Management_%28SAM%29_Import > > Boston, Massachusetts is relatively well mapped, however the > buildings > usually lack addr:housenumber and addr:street tags. > > Since the city is not built on a grid-based design, the streets can > wander around making finding the right house with OpenStreetMap a > challenge. City of Boston provides a sizable amount of data via Open > Government initiative. One of the things available freely is a Live > Street Address Management (SAM) dataset[1] that identifies the > location > of the buildings on the map. We can use that. > > As requested by Guidelines[2], I am writing to imports@ and talk-us@ > to > discuss the outlined import procedure for the data. I will be driving > the generation, upload, and validation. > > The wiki page contains the data on all the neighborhoods (sans 2 that > for some reason did not create a polygon - I'm investigating that), > so > you can load it locally and see what's going to happen. Please do not > upload these changes. > > My username is 'ryebread' on OSM, User:Rye on OSM Wiki. > > [1]: http://www.cityofboston.gov/open/ > [2]: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines > > -- > Sincerely, > Roman Yepishev > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
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