On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Theodore Book <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been playing around with the TIGER 2008 data, which, for some of > the counties around Atlanta seems to be much better than the old data. > If I import it for some of the counties, though, I would like to import > the addresses in a format that would be usable for routing software. > The most popular schema seems to be the Karlsruhe Schema, but making use > of it would require generating three OSM ways for each TIGER way - one > on either side to represent the houses on that side of the road. That > seems unnecessarily complex, but there does not seem to be any widely > accepted schema that places the data on the way itself. Does anyone > have any thoughts on that question?
I think you're spot on about the Karlsruhe schema. In general it's a good fit for the US. Ideally, instead of creating ways to interpolate along we'd get parcel and/or building data freed from somewhere and put the addresses on those. Cheers, Adam _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
