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<pre><b>Hello David,
</b>I'm sorry if you misunderstood where these addresses came from.
These are addresses where people have directly picked up the phone and called us with their address and latlng because they weren't being found in the commercial datasets we license.
Our Support team gathers these addresses and places them in this file that sits "above" the commercial geocoder.
Our Support team is becoming engaged with our Open initiative and took the internal steps necessary to get this file released to the OSM community to do with as it see fits, because they thought it would be potentially useful, and a good thing to do.
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Support provides the updates to us every couple or weeks or so, so
the schedule will likely be whenever we get a breathing space to put
an update up on the OSM Wiki. The coverage expansion schedule is
literally at the whim of those nice people who take the time to pick
up the phone and call us because they couldnt be found on our
websites.<br>
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HTH<br>
Ant (the Limey)<br>
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<b><br>
David Murn</b> wrote:<br>
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This is great, but the US is 300m, Canada 34m and Europe 700m. The<br>
world population is just under 6.8 million. Is there any schedule
when<br>
the other 85% of the world might be released, or is there simply so
much<br>
data that larger regions will have to wait?<br>
<br>
David<br>
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