[Imports] [Talk-us] Boston, MA, USA addr:housenumber Import

[Roman Yepishev]

The wiki now contains updated files that set the postcode and add
a fixme tag to a building in case it already had the number that does
not match the official information from SAM.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Boston_Street_Address_Manage
ment_%28SAM%29_Import#OSM_Data_Files

On Tue, 2016-03-15 at 12:52 -0400, Roman Yepishev wrote:
> (re-posting to both mailing lists since I failed to subscribe to
> imports@ before sending)
> 
> Hello OpenStreetMap folks,
> 
> TL;DR: import wiki page: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/B
> os
> ton_Street_Address_Management_%28SAM%29_Import
> 
> Boston, Massachusetts is relatively well mapped, however the
> buildings
> usually lack addr:housenumber and addr:street tags.
> 
> Since the city is not built on a grid-based design, the streets can
> wander around making finding the right house with OpenStreetMap a
> challenge. City of Boston provides a sizable amount of data via Open
> Government initiative. One of the things available freely is a Live
> Street Address Management (SAM) dataset[1] that identifies the
> location
> of the buildings on the map. We can use that. 
> 
> As requested by Guidelines[2], I am writing to imports@ and talk-us@
> to
> discuss the outlined import procedure for the data. I will be driving
> the generation, upload, and validation.
> 
> The wiki page contains the data on all the neighborhoods (sans 2 that
> for some reason did not create a polygon - I'm investigating that),
> so
> you can load it locally and see what's going to happen. Please do not
> upload these changes.
> 
> My username is 'ryebread' on OSM, User:Rye on OSM Wiki.
> 
> [1]: http://www.cityofboston.gov/open/
> [2]: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines
> 
> -- 
> Sincerely,
> Roman Yepishev
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