Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Boston, MA, USA addr:housenumber Import

Hi, As Massachusetts slowly migrates back into winter, here is the status update on the address import for Boston, MA. License: As it turns out, all public City of Boston data is licensed CC BY 4.0, which requires attribution. I have sent additional clarification questions on whether the

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Boston, MA, USA addr:housenumber Import

Hi all, Just an update on the current status. 1. I am waiting for a response from Boston GIS regarding the license terms (MassGIS != Boston GIS, as I recently realized). 2. At this point the code will only be minimally tweaked as I have implemented everything I originally planned:  - Standalone

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Boston, MA, USA addr:housenumber Import

Hi Jason, all. I added the addr:city to the tags to use w/o confirming first - what is the balance between adding the address information directly on the building as opposed to using the boundaries? I suppose that for the ease of processing the building will need to have as much information as

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Boston, MA, USA addr:housenumber Import

Jason Remillard writes: > The licensing link says the following, it is kind of weird. indeed. > "The City of Boston recognizes the value and benefit gained by sharing > GIS data. Although the City has made reasonable efforts to provide > accurate data, the City

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Boston, MA, USA addr:housenumber Import

Hi Jason, On Mon, 2016-03-21 at 20:42 -0400, Jason Remillard wrote: > Hi Roman, > > The city of Boston building data set for buildings has address. > > http://bostonopendata.boston.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/492746f09dd > e475285b01ae7fc95950e_1 Interesting, so that's where the tax parcel

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Boston, MA, USA addr:housenumber Import

Hi Roman, The city of Boston building data set for buildings has address. http://bostonopendata.boston.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/492746f09dde475285b01ae7fc95950e_1 It seems like they have already figured out what address goes on what building. Should this data set be used rather than the

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Boston, MA, USA addr:housenumber Import

On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Roman Yepishev wrote: > * Some of the addresses from MassGIS point to parks, monuments, or > buildings are located a few feet away. While it may possible to assign > the marker to the building nearby, I'd prefer not to do the guess work >

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Boston, MA, USA addr:housenumber Import

Hi, all! Going back to the point... I stopped linking to the .osn files in order to minimize the confusion. Instead, every neighborhood gets their .gpx file with the details of the issues encountered at that particular address:  - Building is missing.  - Building has more than one address.  -

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Boston, MA, USA addr:housenumber Import

I should point out that I'm not opposed to this import or address imports in general; generally, I am supportive. But, I think the doing an import right is vastly harder than someone who hasn't been through one thinks, and that it's good to iterate on approach and data quality, and not rush or

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Boston, MA, USA addr:housenumber Import

Hi Greg, all. I'd like to provide some information on the import I did not share initially to make my intentions clear (so far I may be seen as dumping the data into OSM and running away). TL;DR = * I believe in an iterative approach to any project. * I want to make as many useful things as

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Boston, MA, USA addr:housenumber Import

Hi Roman , - The source addresses uses abbreviations (RD, ST,etc) are you expanding them? - The source addresses are capitalized, are you fixing that? - How are you dealing with multiple addresses per building - How are you dealing with multiple buildings per address. - Unless you are working

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Boston, MA, USA addr:housenumber Import

Quick followup as I may have had the Tax Parcel 2015 dataset in mind. On Wed, 2016-03-16 at 08:57 -0400, Roman Yepishev wrote: >  > > - The source data contains the building heights, you might want to > > import that in too. > Only number of floors is provided (which can be 2.5), not the height >

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Boston, MA, USA addr:housenumber Import

Roman Yepishev writes: > 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. How many fixme tags would there be? How many of these fixme

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Boston, MA, USA addr:housenumber Import

Clifford Snow writes: > 4) Is it really necessary to upload that many notes during the import? if a > building is missing, can you add a node with the address information > instead of leaving a note? I am opposed to adding notes from bulk data. There are already a

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Boston, MA, USA addr:housenumber Import

Hi Jason, Thanks for you message. Replies are inline. On Wed, 2016-03-16 at 08:02 -0400, Jason Remillard wrote: > Hi Roman , > > - The source addresses uses abbreviations (RD, ST,etc)  are you > expanding them? There are only around 240 SAM streets that did not map to OSM streets exactly, these

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Boston, MA, USA addr:housenumber Import

Hi Clifford, thank you for the message. The answers are inline below. On Tue, 2016-03-15 at 13:40 -0700, Clifford Snow wrote: > 1.) Automatically updating the street name to match the address > records is not advisable. My experience doing address imports, the > address information may not match

Re: [Talk-us] [Imports] Boston, MA, USA addr:housenumber Import

Glad to see someone adding more addresses to OSM. I have some questions/comments for you. 1.) Automatically updating the street name to match the address records is not advisable. My experience doing address imports, the address information may not match the street signs. There may be two