<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">I'm happy to announce that we have finished our first building phase of the BANO (Base d'Adresses Nationale Ouverte) the first french adresses dataset available under an open license (ODbL).</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">It contains data from:</div><div class="gmail_extra">- OSM</div><div class="gmail_extra">- available opendata datasets</div><div class="gmail_extra">- automatically collected cadastre data<br clear="all">
<div><br></div><div>The first experimental dataset are available for download at <a href="http://bano.openstreetmap.fr/data/">http://bano.openstreetmap.fr/data/</a> as:</div><div>- shapefiles</div><div>- csv files</div><div>
- github projet based on the csv files (this allows to have diff and archives of all versions) on <a href="https://github.com/osm-fr/bano-data">https://github.com/osm-fr/bano-data</a></div><div><br></div><div>This dataset has even been published on our national opendata portal: <a href="https://www.data.gouv.fr/dataset/base-d-adresses-nationale-ouverte-bano">https://www.data.gouv.fr/dataset/base-d-adresses-nationale-ouverte-bano</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>The global database contains around 17M addresses, and the current output dataset is around 12M addresses.</div><div><br></div><div>It would be really great if this dataset could be added to Nominatim to extend its geocoding capabilities in France where we only have around 2M addresses currently.</div>
<div><br></div><div>We're not pushing the community to import these data in OSM, but to fill the holes in street names first.</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Christian Quest - OpenStreetMap France</div>
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