Hi, On 27.03.2014 23:14, Johan C wrote: > Yep. Germany is the largest: 40M.
The assumption "one household == one address" is only valid for half of these 40 million; the other half lives in building types where several households share one address. Also, I don't share Johan's belief that all of Europe will automatically have free address data by July 2015 - to me, the directive seems to contain more loopholes than Swiss cheese. But I wouldn't mind to be wrong on this one. Regarding importing such open data into OSM, I'm happy that it can be collected and kept in OpenAddresses until such time as a local community wants to use it in their mapping. Past import efforts, even when planned as a "community import", occasionally had power mappers from hundreds of kilometres away import tens of thousands of objects when the plan had originally been to have the local community do things in their own time - all just to get it over with quickly. OpenAddresses offers the chance of taking out this pressure and let mappers import data in *their* local area when *they* are ready. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
