[Imports] Community import of Flemish addresses, take 2

Sander Deryckere sanderd17 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 10 19:03:28 UTC 2014


Bump again.

2014-12-07 18:26 GMT+01:00 Serge Wroclawski <emacsen at gmail.com>:

> Sander,
>
> It's the weekend, give folks some time to read and digest. :)
>
> - Serge
>
> On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Sander Deryckere <sanderd17 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > No comments?
> >
> > 2014-12-06 13:44 GMT+01:00 Sander Deryckere <sanderd17 at gmail.com>:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Last year, there was already an attempt to import addresses from the
> >> Agiv[1] CRAB[2] database into OSM. But it got stuck on some problems.
> >>
> >> So I decided to work out a completely new approach, make tools for it,
> and
> >> document it.
> >>
> >> All documentation about it can be found on the wiki:
> >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/AGIV_CRAB_Import and
> >>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Belgium/Using_AGIV_Crab_data
> >>
> >> I can't make it clear enough that this will be a slow, community import.
> >> Where we allow mappers to get data from Agiv in a convenient format for
> >> editing, but where local mappers are the final judge on how to map it in
> >> OSM.
> >>
> >> The mapping process is made so that updating data is easy to do. This
> was
> >> a neccesary step, since data changes continuously (about 1000 address
> >> modifications per month).
> >>
> >> But all info should be in the documentation, and I hope there are no
> >> problems with it.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Sander
> >>
> >> [1]: Agiv: Agency for Geographical Information, Flanders
> >> [2]: CRAB: Central Register of Address Files
> >
> >
> >
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