Hi Dan, Both manual and donated data. I've been addressing my neighborhood in Virginia but Washington D.C. donated point level addresses.
Kate Chapman On Nov 15, 2009, at 6:37 PM, Dan Putler <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Kate, > > How have the address points been obtained? From OSM users? The Census > Bureau has collected and created a national data set of them in > preparation for the 2010 Census, but for non-disclosure reasons, they > have no intention of releasing them to the public. The next possible > public source of this type of information would be based on county > assessor parcel data, but that is limited to those counties that have > released their parcel data (although, counties that have released > address ranged centerline street data also tend to be the same ones > who > released their parcel data). > > Dan > > On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 18:28 -0500, Kate Chapman wrote: >> Dave, >> >> >> Understood, I would envision it being a partially manual and >> partially >> automated process. >> >> >> Maybe I'm confused about the address versus road information. I >> would >> think the address point would be the front door of the building and >> would not be a relation to the road. So the node of the address and >> the way of the road would not be on top of each other. >> >> >> Is this incorrect? >> >> >> -Kate Chapman >> >> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Dave Hansen <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 18:11 -0500, Kate Chapman wrote: >>> What's wrong with doing automated addressing imports in >> situations >>> where we have point level address data? >> >> >> The issue is that it may not line up with the roads at all. >> We also >> need to ensure that we *find* the roads to which it refers to >> ensure >> that we get the relations done properly. >> >> If people find a way to do that, it shouldn't be a problem. >> >> >>> Or are you just referring to not importing the addressing >> that is >>> available for the Tiger data? >> >> -- Dave >> >> >> > -- > Dan Putler > Sauder School of Business > University of British Columbia > _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
