[Geocoding] Gazetteer usability

[Nicolás Lichtmaier]

2010/7/6 Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com>

> 2010/7/2 Nicolás Lichtmaier <nico.lichtmaier at gmail.com>:
> > Hi! I have set up a local gazetteer instalation. I've downloaded a subset
> of
> > OpenStreetMap: Chicago.
> >
> > However, the results so far are very disappointint. I've been learning
> about
> > OpenStreet map and found that the coverage for resolving house numbers is
> > nearly non-existing! The number of "ways" tagged with addr:interpolation
> is
> > just 14 in all Chicago, and the number of addr:housenumber is 71! Am I
> doing
> > something wrong? Is it posible to expect gazetteer to resolve addresses
> in
> > cities?
> >
> > Do anyone know other alternatives?
>
> I don't know Chicago specifically, but I would expect there to be very
> little addressing data in OpenStreetMap for there. If you start adding
> some addressing to OpenStreetMap (say, for your local neighborhood),
> then you'll see things start improving. After that, you'll need to get
> lots of mappers active across the city to get a good level of
> addressing data.
>
> It's not really possible to expect the gazatteer to resolve the
> addresses without the information being put into OpenStreetMap, and in
> most areas there is fairly patchy coverage.
>

Oh, I see... It sounds I'm out of luck then with this. =(

I had thought gazetteer main purpose was this, so I assume it would be
possible...

Thanks!
Nicolás.-
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