Hi all, This is my first time posting here. I am probably the most recent person to join the OSM Foundation as a normal member after meeting Kate Chapman at a COST event last month and I would like to get more involved.
I am currently engaged in the slow process of trying to standardize a database of reverse-geocoded requests from a 3rd party provider. I am not sure how recent their data is but as I update and reorganize the values if I have anything to offer I would be happy to contribute. Could someone bring me up to speed please: - What is the general standard of quality of addresses in Irish cities? Are many areas of city centers blanked out or lacking in quality? What areas need and are currently receiving attention? - Secondly, has the community agreed upon a standardized address format for Ireland? Is 'county' = 'Cork' or 'Co. Cork' ? ... etc. There seems to be a lot of common errors which annoying to have to debug and correct. Is there something being done about this? - Thirdly, is anyone providing data at the sub-national level for Ireland? I only discovered http://planet.openstreetmap.ie/ and this is a great resource- thanks to whoever got this together. May I suggest providing some trial shp data and an example of where data is lacking or could be improved? - Finally, I have a more technical question- I am trying to devise a strategy to capture the results from reverse geocoded requests and correctly store them in their respective db columns. The count of the address array and the keys (php) are dynamic. Is there a set of keys for addresses that someone can recommend? Eg. there is commonly 1 value either for "suburb" or sometimes the key is "locality" and other times it is "city_district" and there are probably more keys I need too. Can someone recommend a strategy? Alternatively I am considering counting the array and hard coding the values in by index.. thoughts?? Thanks for reading, Kind regards- Seán -- Web & App developer in training M.Sc. Coastal & Marine Environments (NUIG, 2015) M.Sc. GIS & Remote Sensing (UCC, 2014) B.A. Geography & Economics (UCC, 2011) ie.linkedin.com/in/seanlynchgis _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
