<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>I've mentioned this on and off over the last few months, but with all the pieces now in place, I am pleased to say that OSM UK is kicking off a UK addressing project. Ed beat me to this email so rather than me retyping it all here, head over to <a href="https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/supporting-the-osmuk-addressing-project" target="_blank">https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/supporting-the-osmuk-addressing-project</a> to find out more.</div><div><br></div><div>In short, we are working with <a href="https://russ.garrett.co.uk/" target="_blank">Russ Garrett</a> and <a href="https://openstreetmap.be/en/motm/2018/01/12/pieter-vdv.html" target="_blank">Pieter Vander Vennet</a> (both long standing OSMers) to develop a new way to crowdsource address data within a specialist, simple editor. We are planning to use OGL data as a starting point to get lat/lon coordinates of suspected addressable locations and ask the crowdsource community to check and add all the tags.</div><div><br></div><div>Below are the topic areas that we are aware that we will need to address (pun not intended!):</div><div><ol><li style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">How to get the best quality set of suspected addressable locations (Land Registry and Generalised buildings vs UPRN data)</span></li><li style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">How to manage integration with existing OSM data (filtering).</span></li><li style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">How to make the user interface as simple / intuitive as possible. (It will be based on MapComplete)<br></span></li><li style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">What data we actually want to collect (e.g. easy, observable data)</span></li><li style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">How to promote the crowdsource project to as wide an audience as possible...</span></li><li style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">... whilst maintaining good quality contributions that are compliant with OSM (e.g. not copying from protected databases)<br></span></li></ol></div><div>Firstly, have we missed anything? And secondly feel free to start chipping in with answers / comments on these. It could get too much for this mailing list so feel free to get something up and running in a collaborative doc or on OSM UK's loomio site. (If nobody beats me to that, I'll get that done in the coming days).<br></div><div><br></div><div>I hope our approach is welcomed and does not fall into some of the traps
that cause worry. For example, we are crowdsourcing not importing, and
by keeping it simple we should minimise / avoid bad edits by newbies,
etc. All comments, questions, and so on are welcome.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,<br></div><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b>Rob</b></span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>