Greetings, Very early in this, but might as well put it out for comment...
I'm working on a proposal to merge NZ street address database from LINZ. One major motivation is to make navigation to an address possible using only openstreetmaps data, either via web, or e.g. OsmAnd android app. Merging this dataset would also free mappers from the near-impossible task of manual address entry for the whole country. Early draft of proposal is here, including information about the source data, tagging, conflict handling etc. is here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:LINZ/Howto Discussion in the NZ community is ongoing here (and possibly in other topics of the same group): https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nzopengis/QPK1RuzArgk To anticipate some questions. * The source data is CC-BY, and the attribution requirements are well documented. * The NZ OSM data contains about 40 thousand addresses, the LINZ database 2 million. * Stage 1 of the proposal would merge only addresses that aren't already in OSM. Further stages would deal with existing data, e.g. verifying existing point addresses, and how to handle polygons with addresses etc. -- https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/EliotB _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
