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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>If anyone is finding the prospect of downloading 350 zipped shape files individually (there is no Attenborough) here is a link to zipfile with all of them in it, 269 MB http://dl.dropbox.com/u/37626989/allStructures.zip<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> the Old Topo Depot [mailto:oldtopos@novacell.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 06, 2012 10:33 PM<br><b>To:</b> Jason Remillard<br><b>Cc:</b> talk-us@openstreetmap.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Talk-us] Massachusetts addresses/tiger addresses<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Jason,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>This is likely far superior to interpolation. Looking forward to more discussion on how a high quality import might happen. You can likely learn a lot by keeping track of the Seattle discussion<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Best,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Jason Remillard <<a href="mailto:remillard.jason@gmail.com" target="_blank">remillard.jason@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I am not sure if anybody is actually working on importing the tiger address ranges or not. Just in case somebody is ... The Massachusetts mapping department (MassGIS) just this week released data for all of the buildings in the state! <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.mass.gov/anf/research-and-tech/it-serv-and-support/application-serv/office-of-geographic-information-massgis/datalayers/structures.html" target="_blank">http://www.mass.gov/anf/research-and-tech/it-serv-and-support/application-serv/office-of-geographic-information-massgis/datalayers/structures.html</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>MassGIS also has very good parcel data with addresses. I think we have at this point everything we need to do an address import into each building, rather than using address interpolation. For MA, using the state data instead of the tiger data would probably be better. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#888888'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#888888'>Jason.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#888888'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#888888'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br>Talk-us mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Talk-us@openstreetmap.org">Talk-us@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us" target="_blank">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>-- <br>John Novak<br>585-OLD-TOPOS (585-653-8676)<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>