On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Saikrishna Arcot <saiarcot...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi all, > > I believe TIGER has some data on addresses; more specifically, it has > address ranges for each block (roughly). Currently, the US has limited > address info in OSM. Some cities have many businesses and POIs with address > data, so the data in the region might be comparable with other mapping > services. Is it possible to have a bot/script that matches up TIGER roads > with OSM roads and then add in address ranges? That way, there is at least > *some* info about addresses in OSM. > The default OSM geocoder (nominatim) uses TIGER address ranges as a fallback when it can't find data in OSM, so we're already using TIGER data. It might be interesting to convert the address ranges to address nodes and then let local mappers line them up with houses, but that wouldn't be very precise. Another option is to spend time to collect address data from local municipalities and work on methodically importing them. I started this process and have collected a couple hundred address datasets here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsVnlPsfrhUIdEVZTzVFalFYYnlvTkc0R05wcUpsWVE -Ian
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