Re: [Talk-us] USPS Address Database

2011-03-02 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:40 AM, Val Kartchner val...@gmail.com wrote: I think that someone has brought this up before, but I forget what happened. Can we get the United States Postal Service (USPS) address database? It's expensive and it has an incompatible license. The former might be

Re: [Talk-us] USPS Address Database

2011-03-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On 03/02/2011 01:40 AM, Val Kartchner wrote: Can we get the United States Postal Service (USPS) address database? It would still take some adjustments, but this would be a lot easier than driving every street and finding the numbers. A lot of house numbers are hard to find. The cops may be

Re: [Talk-us] USPS Address Database

2011-03-02 Thread Mike N
On 3/2/2011 9:23 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: Dress the part: Wear your surveyor's jacket (http://shop.opencyclemap.org/products/openstreetmap-surveryors-jacket) and be ready to explain the project. Business cards are a succinct and quick way to answer questions:

Re: [Talk-us] USPS Address Database

2011-03-02 Thread Brian Wilson
...and USPS database is probably 5-10 years out of date. You'd be better off trying to get tax assessor data on a county by county basis and then create centroids from the parcels. Tax assessors are pretty good at keeping their records up to date because they have to have accurate data to tax us.

Re: [Talk-us] USPS Address Database

2011-03-02 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Brian Wilson br...@wildsong.biz wrote: ...and USPS database is probably 5-10 years out of date. What USPS database are you talking about? My understanding is that the USPS maintains an extraordinarily up-to-date list of unique valid addresses. A copy of it would

Re: [Talk-us] USPS Address Database

2011-03-02 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Brian Wilson br...@wildsong.biz wrote: You'd be better off trying to get tax assessor data on a county by county basis and then create centroids from the parcels. I've tried that, and it works great for individual residences. But it's useless for apartments and

Re: [Talk-us] USPS Address Database

2011-03-02 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Brian Wilson br...@wildsong.biz wrote: You'd be better off trying to get tax assessor data on a county by county basis and then create centroids from the parcels. I've tried that, and it works great

[Talk-us] all our addresses are belong to you

2011-03-02 Thread flambe...@gmail.com
MapQuest is providing several address files that contain user-provided latitude and longitude locations across the world. Our users provided these exact locations to us so that they could be mapped correctly on our MapQuest maps. There are currently three (3) main files - one for the United

Re: [Talk-us] all our addresses are belong to you

2011-03-02 Thread Ian Dees
Hi All, I'm planning on converting these to OSM format in the coming hours and dividing them up into chunks of some size that can be relatively easily checked by humans. I'll post to the list and to that page with the chunks later. -Ian On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:55 PM, flambe...@gmail.com

Re: [Talk-us] USPS Address Database

2011-03-02 Thread Steven Johnson
In the US, addresses are typically assigned by local (sometimes state) governments and NOT by the USPS. The USPS is agnostic with respect to the actual house number, as long as it is correctly encoded in their Delivery Sequence Files (the DSF, which tells the postal worker where the delivery point

Re: [Talk-us] USPS Address Database

2011-03-02 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Steven Johnson sejohns...@gmail.com wrote: To my knowledge the DSF is not available as a public domain data set; back in the '90's, the US Census Bureau had to get Congressional permission to use it for creating the Master Address File (MAF). The USPS claims

Re: [Talk-us] USPS Address Database

2011-03-02 Thread Nathan Edgars II
What we really need is a way to tag a grid (in those places that use one). That way we can give an approximate location (and hopefully the correct side of the street) if we lack an exact location. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] USPS Address Database

2011-03-02 Thread Andrew Ayre
Anthony wrote: (*) Incidentally, if you'd like to buy a copy of the database and give it to me, I'd be willing to be the guinea pig who redistributes it, or Buying the database and giving it to you is probably against the terms of the license, possibly leaving that person open to being a

Re: [Talk-us] USPS Address Database

2011-03-02 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Andrew Ayre a...@britishideas.com wrote: Anthony wrote: (*) Incidentally, if you'd like to buy a copy of the database and give it to me, I'd be willing to be the guinea pig who redistributes it, or Buying the database and giving it to you is probably against

Re: [Talk-us] USPS Address Database

2011-03-02 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Andrew Ayre a...@britishideas.com wrote: Anthony wrote: (*) Incidentally, if you'd like to buy a copy of the database and give it to me, I'd be willing to be the guinea pig who redistributes it, or Buying the database and giving it to you is probably against

Re: [Talk-us] USPS Address Database

2011-03-02 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2011-03-02 11:23, Brian Wilson wrote: You'd be better off trying to get tax assessor data on a county by county basis and then create centroids from the parcels. Tax assessors are pretty good at keeping their records up to date because they have to have accurate data to tax us. Almost.

Re: [Talk-us] USGS National Hydrography Dataset

2011-03-02 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2011-02-17 22:21, Toby Murray wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Val Kartchner val...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 08:57 -0500, Phil! Gold wrote: (TopOSM also shows a lot of intermittent streams from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset.) Can we get this USGS dataset

Re: [Talk-us] TriMet will begin OSM improvements in the Portland area

2011-03-02 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2011-02-10 18:28, PJ Houser wrote: 6 inch aerial imagery flown Fall 2010 Wow - that's among the highest-quality and most recent imagery available anywhere. It should result in very accurate alignment, as long as it's been well referenced/ortho'd. Would it be possible to make

Re: [Talk-us] all our addresses are belong to you

2011-03-02 Thread Mike N
On 3/2/2011 3:55 PM, flambe...@gmail.com wrote: MapQuest is providing several address files that contain user-provided latitude and longitude locations across the world. Our users provided these exact locations to us so that they could be mapped correctly on our MapQuest maps. A quick look

Re: [Talk-us] Systematic problem with GNIS import and elevation tags

2011-03-02 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2011-01-30 18:44, Paul Johnson wrote: I just noticed while researching node 357412228 that it has the following properties (mostly) imported from GNIS: Node id=357412228 lat=36.0747997 lon=-95.9005176 (projected: x=-95.9005176, y=36.0747997); Data set: 4B68BE0E; User: [id:92286 name:Paul