[Imports] Address Data Import Norway

[Ruben Undheim]

Hi,

I just want to say that the import of addresses in Norway has been
completed (~100%). The status can be found here:
   http://osm.beebeetle.com/addrnodeimportstatus.php

There are also some screenshots there showing the location of all addresses.

In my opinion, it went very well.

There are two remaining things that will have to be sorted out in the
maintenance phase:
 - Certain address nodes where there are multiple letters following
the house number are placed at exactly the same point. They were
imported anyway. A plan is to make a script or something that finds
these nodes so that we can work on assigning them to the location of
the correct door of the buildings. Maybe someone knows about such a
script/web service already that can give us this info?
 - There are still many missing roads according to the address view of
OSM inspector. Now as we have the addresses in OSM, it's much easier
to spot the missing roads.

These are long-term tasks to complete, and we are happy to now have
addresses available in all applications using OSM data. Every now and
then (every 3 months or so), "Kartverket" will release updates to the
address node data set and then the plan is to use
http://osm.beebeetle.com/addrnodeimportstatus.php to keep track of the
differences and then OSM up to date (by manually doing the changes).

Let me know if you see any other significant issues.

Regards,
Ruben

2014-10-01 20:59 GMT+02:00 Ruben Undheim <ruben.undheim at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> The norwegian OSM community is now ready to start importing address
> nodes for all municipalities. The address nodes are released by the
> Norwegian Mapping Authority (Statens Kartverk) under the CC BY 4.0
> license and is of very good quality.
>
> A web service has been developed to track the progress, detect
> non-matched addresses, detect duplicates etc.:
> http://osm.beebeetle.com/addrnodeimportstatus.php (try Google
> Translate). Only municipalities for which all existing OSM addresses
> have been confirmed and matched with corresponding data from
> Kartverket will be imported in this round. Other municipalities must
> be manually "fixed" first. The web-service will tell when a
> municipality is ready. Only missing addresses will be imported and
> existing data will be kept if correct (in this round).
>
> See also: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue/Address_import_for_Norway
>
> * It has been added to the table for Community Imports here:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue
> * The Norwegian Mapping Authority has provided the correct permission:
> http://lists.nuug.no/pipermail/kart/2014-August/004831.html
> * The Norwegian Mapping Authority is listed as contributor here:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors
>
>
> As you can see on the status page,
> http://osm.beebeetle.com/addrnodeimportstatus.php, several
> municipalities have already been completed before consulting
> imports(at)openstreetmap.org, and the experience has been very good so
> far.
>
> We would like to get confirmed from you that we may proceed with all
> the remaining municipalities.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Ruben Undheim