On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Steven Johnson <sejohns...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Let me pose something to help clarify what we're talking about when we
> say, "importing addresses"
> First, are we talking about
> 1) Address *ranges*, which are linear features and apply to streets/roads?
> TIGER has address ranges, useful for interpolation. But TIGER does not
> contain individual addresses.
>

We are not talking about importing TIGER addresses at all.


> 2) Individual addresses? Points, if you will, associated with buildings,
> landmarks, postal addresses. These are more likely to come from state/local
> data sources.


Yes, individual address points. The topic of this thread was to collect the
location of address point data wherever we can find it. We should be
talking to state/county/local GIS people to gather this data (thus the
spreadsheet).
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