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

Marcus Wolschon marcus.wolschon at googlemail.com
Wed Nov 25 20:14:30 GMT 2009


On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Marcus Wolschon
<marcus.wolschon at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Why bother with TIGER at all and not just import to the adresses we
> have surveyed ourself?
> As addr:housenumbers get added the import continues. Giving mappers an
> added incentive
> to map and correct house-numbers.
>
> Our greatest resource are our mappers. Lets motivate and reward them
> for their great work!

PS:
TIGER is for just one country anyway. I heard AND has house-numbers too
and we just did not import them (yet).
Let´s create something that works for the general case of addresses
we have mapped ourself and make optimisations for cases where we can
utilize third party data AFTER that is done.

MArcus




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