J.P.,
Service New Brunswick (SNB) has started a project to create the New
Brunswick Road Network (NBRN). The NBRN will actually be produced through the
Department of Public Safety and it's agency - Ambulance New Brunswick. SNB
will provide some guidance, QC, and funding. I mention the NBRN project
because the NBRN data will include block-face addressing on the road segments.
Is it possible that the NBRN data will be a better data source for addressing
in OSM instead of the civic address points? I don't know the answer but I hope
this information will be helpful.
Bernie.
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Bernie Connors, P.Eng
Land Information Infrastructure Unit, SNB
[email protected]
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, 2012-06-21 14:51
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Talk-ca] Proposed import: Service New Brunswick address data
Hello...long time reader, first time poster. You may know me as the one who did
(sometimes botched) the bulk of Canvec imports in New Brunswick.
That job was completed last week.
As you may be aware, Canvec does not include road name or addressing data in
New Brunswick. I have generally been using a combination of the StatsCan and
Service New Brunswick databases to add road names by hand.
It was a long and arduous process that took over a year, but it's finished.
Service New Brunswick maintains a publicly-available geocoded database of civic
address points in the province (http://www.snb.ca/gdam-igec/e/2900e_1f_i.asp),
and their license
(http://www.snb.ca/gdam-igec/e/2900e_1e_v.asp) is compatible with OSM.
My experience is that the database is very accurate in urban areas, but there
are still a lot of gaps in rural areas. Any records that do not currently have
a civic number attached will not be imported, and duplicate addresses will be
ignored.
There are currently very few addresses in NB in the OSM database. They are
mostly in downtown Fredericton and uptown Saint John, and those areas will be
checked by hand to avoid duplicates. In the rest of the province, an attempt
will be made to merge the data with existing ways whenever possible.
Each point would have the following tags:
addr:housenumber=
addr:street=
addr:city=
addr:province=NB
addr:country=CA
addr:source=SNB
addr:SNBid=unique ID from the SNB database
The plan is to break up the import by county, with the smaller less populous
counties done first to work out the kinks and check for integrity with existing
OSM data. Imports would be made from the 506imports account.
Any comments?
J.P. Kirby (the506)
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