[Imports] Australia - Geocoded national address data

[Pavel Machek]

On Sat 2015-12-26 18:49:42, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 12/26/2015 04:56 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Well.. we do address points as points, because one building can have
> > multiple. Importing it soon looks like a good idea to me.
> 
> Great care has to be taken with such large import projects and I don't
> like to hear words like "soon" in that context. Ideally we'd like people
> familiar with an area to add and check the address points; they would
> then also notice things like an address point located on water or along
> a missing road and so on. I'd rather have a slow import that takes care
> of these issues than a quick "we can still fix later" job that will make
> Australia look like this
> 
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/57.22356/10.30863

This actually looks good. It is useful to know how many houses are
there even if you don't know the shapes, and address points are
extremely valuable.

> > Well, I have a programs that can deduce street names from surrounding
> > address points. So addresses can help even with that...
> 
> I'd prever surveyed information over deduced information any time...

And I'd prefer useful map over useless one.

This kind of automated deduction makes it easier to add the names
(because you don't have to actually type them), but has enough errors
so that you need to review ever single one.

								Pavel
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