<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> "This data is also the result of many</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">contributors, skilled workers, collecting and keeping the data</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">up-to-date (at least, trying to)."</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>+1-ing this and Pieren's other comments as well!<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 4:50 AM, Pieren <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pieren3@gmail.com" target="_blank">pieren3@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Jaak Laineste (Nutiteq)<br>
<<a href="mailto:jaak@nutiteq.com">jaak@nutiteq.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Geonames.org could be good candidate. Yes, it is a lot of work, but actually less than using OSM as repo for database merges; this is for sure what OSM is not about.<br>
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</div>So, to summarise, you are writing in the "imports" OSM mailing list<br>
that you are against imports in OSM ;-)<br>
The question is more to know if address data is something valuable for<br>
OSM or not. We could move it to a separate database as you suggest.<br>
We could also move building footprints, 3d modeling, in-house,<br>
coastlines, turn restrictions, landuse, etc into separate databases.<br>
Then each application could decide which datasets they need, merge<br>
them, check their consistency (e.g. the address corresponds to the<br>
place and street name, or landuse corresponds to the buildings) and,<br>
if they are lucky, at the end, everything will fit together. Of<br>
course, the community already answered to that question : it's much<br>
easier to do this merge and consistency check only once for all<br>
consumers in the same database. If someone find a mistake or something<br>
outdated, it is fixed once and for all consumers at the same time.<br>
The question about keeping the data up-to-date is a general challenge<br>
in OSM, not only for data imported. I found enough outdated shops or<br>
restaurants manually mapped to get that. When a country or a<br>
municipality is publishing and opening its address database, it's also<br>
not falling from the sky. This data is also the result of many<br>
contributors, skilled workers, collecting and keeping the data<br>
up-to-date (at least, trying to). If you ever mapped housenumbers<br>
manually, you would know how painful and slow this task is. To achieve<br>
this manually by communities survey, it would take decades for OSM. If<br>
addresses are released in open licences by public authorities, it<br>
would be foolish to not take this opportunity to considerably speed-up<br>
the task.<br>
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Pieren<br>
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