On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Ian Dees <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think we should crowd-source an effort to collect as much local addressing > data as possible, convert it to OSM format, and import it. Obviously we > should do it in a controlled manner and follow the usual import guidelines, > but a large part of the work is in collecting the data in the first place > and convincing municipalities to license it to us in a compatible manner.
The Iowa DNR has an ongoing project to provide statewide geocoding data. As of this summer they had about 50% of the state covered: http://iagiservicebureau.blogspot.com/2012/06/first-batch-of-geocoding-project-points.html It would be fairly trivial to convert these shape files and import them. -- Jeff Ollie _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
