[Imports] Address import for Allen County Indiana

Mike H 1jgon6 at gmail.com
Sat Apr 28 19:33:22 UTC 2018


As there appear to be no objections, I will proceed with the import
process as outlined on the wiki, shortly. I don't foresee it taking too
long, and it should be complete tonight, or sometime tomorrow.

Jgon6

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 11:30 PM Mike H <1jgon6 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Pierre, I'll probably end up using that on some of the places that get
> skipped from the import, but it might not work on all of them so I'm going
> to add those points by hand, after the import.
>
> Everyone else, I haven't heard anything from anyone in a few days, so I'm
> guessing no one has anything more to add. Am I good to proceed with the
> actual import?
>
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 5:20 PM Pierre Béland <pierzenh at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>
>> For buildings with multiple addresses, you can use an interpolation way
>> with first and last nodes indicating the range of addresses.
>>
>>
>> Pierre
>>
>>
>> Le vendredi 20 avril 2018 16 h 40 min 27 s HAE, Mike H <1jgon6 at gmail.com>
>> a écrit :
>>
>>
>> Max, I have spot checked the data and the only problems I was able to
>> find is in some places, mostly apartment complexes, there would be many
>> addresses on a single point. These points I'm just not importing, but I
>> will be saving them to a separate file, so the locations can be reviewed
>> and mapped at a later date.
>>
>> For your second message, my understanding from reading the wiki is that
>> the address tags should contain the postal address, so that's what I'm
>> using. As far as zipcode boundaries go my understanding is that they aren't
>> really a thing except for the census bureau, and zipcodes are really just a
>> collection of points. For that reasoning, I think it's a good idea to have
>> them on address points, so that's why I have kept them in the import plan.
>> I'm not really sure if you had a question about that, but I hope that helps.
>>
>> I forgot to provide a link to the sample data that was request earlier,
>> so you can find it here:
>> https://gitlab.com/jgon6/allen_county_address_import/blob/master/Sample-data/46835.osm
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 3:38 PM Max Erickson <maxerickson at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >In these areas, the addr:city tag should not be added.
>>
>> US postal addresses often differ from administrative units.
>>
>> Also, the boundaries imported from Tiger probably aren't accurate
>> enough that other data should be rejected based on them.
>>
>> Of course I don't mean to propose a mass removal of the tiger
>> boundaries when I mention they haven't yet achieved perfection.
>>
>>
>> Max
>>
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