[Imports] Importing a list of (business) locations?

[Kate Chapman]

Marcus,

That's true TIGER is a range of addresses which are interpolated when you
geocode.  It could be  perhaps used for geocoding and only addresses with
above a certain match rate would be used.  It wouldn't be any further off
than some of the GNIS data.  People could then reposition it.

I'm torn on whether or not this makes sense to do though.  I think we would
end up with duplicates where people add stores where TIGER didn't place them
close enough to their actual location.

-Kate

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Marcus Wolschon <
marcus.wolschon at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Mark Gray <mark-imports at vatavia.net>
> wrote:
> >> I imagine some companies have a shape file, but others will just
> >> have addresses and not have Lat/Lon. Is there a geocoder we are
> >> allowed to use? Perhaps we need to wait till we can geocode
> >> addresses ourselves? Perhaps we cannot even use their lat/lon if
> >> they have them because they may come from a geocoder we can't use.
> >
> > Within the US, you could use TIGER.
>
>
> As the discussion on the international mailing-list shows
> TIGER contains "potential addresses". Meaning that
> it only tells you what range of house-numbers is reserved
> for a block. Not where each house is or if a number is in use
> at all.
>
>
> Marcus
>
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