Hi, On 25.03.2014 23:14, Paul Johnson wrote: > Am I wrong to assume that this would be considered a potential data > source on a limited scale for folks who wish to do the conflation?
I think it would be great if someone were put a little work into importing this data directly into a locally held Nominatim database, just as can already be done with TIGER address data. This would mean that anyone could set up their own geocoder with an address data set larger than what is available from OSM, without having to go through a proper import; no conflation is necessary in this case because Nominatim can be made to resort to the secondary data set only if nothing is found in OSM. Please help spread the word that other than such "downstream mix-in", copying more than a handful of addresses from the OpenAddresses data set *is* an import and has to go through the same import process as importing any other data set. Most bad (un-discussed) imports are committed by people who didn't know any better. OpenAddresses, if used properly, can be an excellent valve to take out the "OMG free data, import immediately" pressure out of OSM mapping. Let us make sure it actually has this positive effect. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
