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
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
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:
...and USPS database is probably 5-10 years out of date.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.
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...and USPS database is probably 5-10 years out of date.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
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
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
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
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
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.
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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
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
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
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.
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
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
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