This speaks to the message I just posted to the list: I believe Richard F's inspiration was SteveC's post suggesting we import TIGER (*range*) data, and apply it to ways. OTHO, I believe Ian (also prompted by SteveC) is suggesting importing local address (*point*) data, and applying it to buildings and parcels.
Several people have responded with examples of state/local address data to import into OSM. Are these address *points* or address *ranges*? -- SEJ, -- twitter: @geomantic -- skype: sejohnson8 "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." -- Einstein On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Ian Dees <ian.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > (Changing the subject because we seemed to have gotten side-tracked to > imports rather than collecting address information) > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Serge Wroclawski <emac...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Ian Dees <ian.d...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > I really don't want to support a complete TIGER address import unless >> our >> > effort at finding "real" local addressing data fails in some places. >> >> I believe that Richard was speaking about TIGER in the sense of the >> style of import, rather than about the dataset itself. >> >> The issues around TIGER were that it gave us a boost initially, but >> we've been also dealing with the consequences of that import for >> years, and I think Richard is suggesting that we consider our actions >> carefully. > > > All actions have consequences. Did importing TIGER hamper the OSM > community building in the US or did poor advocacy? Maybe it was the > existing vast, free data ecosystem? Maybe it was simply the sheer size of > the country? > > >> > Just about all the data I've seen is unexpanded. We'll probably have to >> deal >> > with that on a per-county basis (assuming we're not importing TIGER). >> >> Yes, but it's an excellent point- one that should go along with any data >> import. >> > > Yes, we can talk about an import process once we start talking about > importing the addresses. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > >
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