On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Ian Dees <ian.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > Address range information can be derived from existing TIGER data quite > simply.
I'm not sure how simple it is. It's simple in cases where TIGER data matches up very closely with OSM data. But that isn't universally true. And where it doesn't match up very closely, chances are high that the TIGER data is out of date or incorrect. Which brings me to the conclusion that there's no point in importing TIGER address information. A geocoder can simply try to find the address in OSM, and fall back to TIGER if the address isn't in OSM. Then, once the lat/lon is obtained (possibly from the external TIGER database), it can simply pass the lat/lon back into OSM for routing purposes (possibly along with a warning that TIGER data was used, which is quite likely to be be out of date and/or inaccurate. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us