Re: [talk-au] How to efficiently improve AU address coverage?

2023-10-02 Thread Andrew Harvey
On Mon, 2 Oct 2023 at 23:48, Yuchen Pei wrote: > On Mon 2023-10-02 21:42:01 +1100, Andrew Harvey wrote: > > > [... 15 lines elided] > > > It's been a while since I worked on this, but I believe it was the > > matching of existing OSM addresses to Vicmap, and that matching > > affects most of the

Re: [talk-au] How to efficiently improve AU address coverage?

2023-10-02 Thread Andrew Harvey
On Tue, 3 Oct 2023 at 00:10, Yuchen Pei wrote: > On Mon 2023-10-02 21:35:10 +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > > While OSM doesn't have layers, https://openaddresses.io/ more or less > > acts as the address layer. The datasets there aren't all ODBL, but > > they are generally open. It includes

[talk-au] Victorian cities (Was Re: Filling in blank space (Was Re: Tagging towns by relative importance, not just population size))

2023-10-02 Thread Andrew Davidson
On 2/10/23 21:53, Little Maps wrote: differences in what people consider to be towns vs cities. For example, lots of regional centres in Vic have been tagged as cities (and are indeed called ‘cities’ in Victoria), whereas many places of similar size in other states have been tagged as towns.

Re: [talk-au] How to efficiently improve AU address coverage?

2023-10-02 Thread Simon Poole
Except if something has massively changed, the GNAF data isn"t actually open. Am 2. Oktober 2023 13:05:10 MESZ schrieb Daniel O'Connor : >While OSM doesn't have layers, https://openaddresses.io/ more or less acts >as the address layer. The datasets there aren't all ODBL, but they are >generally

Re: [talk-au] How to efficiently improve AU address coverage?

2023-10-02 Thread Yuchen Pei
On Mon 2023-10-02 21:35:10 +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > While OSM doesn't have layers, https://openaddresses.io/ more or less > acts as the address layer. The datasets there aren't all ODBL, but > they are generally open. It includes GNAF. Thanks, I didn't know of openaddresses, but I'm a bit

Re: [talk-au] How to efficiently improve AU address coverage?

2023-10-02 Thread Yuchen Pei
On Mon 2023-10-02 21:42:01 +1100, Andrew Harvey wrote: > [... 15 lines elided] > It's been a while since I worked on this, but I believe it was the > matching of existing OSM addresses to Vicmap, and that matching > affects most of the import stages. OK, what is needed to be done for "Stage 2 -

Re: [talk-au] How to efficiently improve AU address coverage?

2023-10-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
While OSM doesn't have layers, https://openaddresses.io/ more or less acts as the address layer. The datasets there aren't all ODBL, but they are generally open. It includes GNAF. Given how frequently addresses update, to keep it in sync with OSM would be pretty significant and hard to reconcile

Re: [talk-au] Filling in blank space (Was Re: Tagging towns by relative importance, not just population size)

2023-10-02 Thread Little Maps
Great work again Andrew, many, many thanks. I’m curious what process we could use to move forward on this. As I understand your message, we have and/or can get population data for a small proportion of places in Aus (probably with comprehensive data for most larger places and less data for

Re: [talk-au] How to efficiently improve AU address coverage?

2023-10-02 Thread Andrew Harvey
On Sun, 1 Oct 2023 at 23:16, Yuchen Pei wrote: > > The preparation and planning is well progressed in my view. There is > > always going to be a long tail of corner cases and I was attempting to > > handle more of these in the code and that never got finished. We > > probably would be better to

Re: [talk-au] Filling in blank space (Was Re: Tagging towns by relative importance, not just population size)

2023-10-02 Thread Andrew Davidson
On 2/10/23 12:52, Little Maps wrote: Hi again, fyi. I was curious to see how variable city/town tags were in relation to population. About 1500 places spread around Aus have a population tag according to an Overpass Turbo search. You were a little too quick for me, I didn't have time to put