[Imports-us] Seattle Import

Jason Remillard remillard.jason at gmail.com
Sat Dec 14 20:57:03 UTC 2013


Hi Clifford,

> Collaborating with governmental groups (just as long as they have more than
> 3 letters that start with N) can give us positive press. That positive press
> will bring new users to OSM.
>

I am all for working with the upstream data sources. The technical
argument goes both ways, they have to track OSM without their ids if
they want to pick up organic changes to OSM after the import.

For addresses, everybody should be using the augmented path matching
algorithm when trying to compare between OSM and external data sets -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopcroft%E2%80%93Karp_algorithm.

Thanks
Jason



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