<html>Does anyone know what geophysical data collection is planned as part of the 2010 census? It seems like with an actual enumeration required, the census workers could get a coordinate for each address they visit next year. Is anyone on the list going through the census training courses being held now for the census takers?<BR><BR>---------- Original Message ----------<BR>From: "Russ Nelson" <russ@cloudmade.com><BR>To: "Theodore Book" <tbook@libero.it><BR>Cc: "talk-us@openstreetmap.org" <talk-us@openstreetmap.org><BR>Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Addresses and Tiger<BR>Date: 26 May 2009 20:20:28 -0400<BR><BR>I suggest that you do the area around my house. I've been adding <BR>Karlsruhe-style addressing ways, but with all of the houses marked <BR>with addr:housenumber and building=yes. Where neither the mailbox nor <BR>the house have a number I've added a node with just building=yes. I'm <BR>at 44.73 -74.94.<BR><BR>My ways are as accurate as you can get with a GPS receiver on a <BR>bicycle riding at 12MPH, so they should serve as a good quality- <BR>control test.<BR>-russ<BR><BR>On May 26, 2009, at 3:02 PM, Theodore Book wrote:<BR><BR>> I think I will go ahead and do a mock-up of a conversion script that<BR>> creates the secondary ways. I was also thinking about the best way to<BR>> create the extra ways for areas where we aren't replacing the tiger<BR>> data. Perhaps would be possible to generate the address ways from the<BR>> raw tiger data, where the ways haven't been combined, and then only<BR>> upload them if the original ways haven't been modified. It might then<BR>> be possible to create new address ways for the ways that had been<BR>> modified. I will stick to the first part of the project for now, <BR>> though.<BR>><BR>> TB<BR>><BR>><BR>> Alan Millar wrote:<BR>><BR>>> I had the same thoughts on the Karlsruhe schema. Having 3 ways for <BR>>> street<BR>>> and address interpolation does seem complex. But when I look at <BR>>> OSM areas<BR>>> mapped using it, and also recall problems I've encountered with <BR>>> geocoding,<BR>>> I think the Karlsruhe<BR><BR>--<BR>Russ Nelson - http://community.cloudmade.com/blog - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:RussNelson<BR>russ@cloudmade.com - Twitter: Russ_OSM - http://openstreetmap.org/user/RussNelson<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Talk-us mailing list<BR>Talk-us@openstreetmap.org<BR>http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us<BR></html>
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