[Imports] [Talk-us-newyork] Update: New York State GIS SAM Address Points Import

[Jack Arnold]

Hi Skyler,

562889 addresses and counting is amazing! Looked over some of the
address points in Ulster County and they appear correct.

How are you handling different addresses with the same position? I ran
into these two nodes:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/8446151852
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/8446163091

Jack

On Mon, 2021-02-22 at 10:37 -0500, Skyler Hawthorne wrote:
> Quick update: I've finished adding the Building and Room fields, and
> begun importing again. Since I did not get any feedback about the
> tagging question for Building, I decided to go with addr:housename.
> I've just finished Ulster county. This makes the complete list of
> imported counties:
> 
> Albany
> Columbia
> Fulton
> Greene
> Rensselaer
> Saratoga
> Schenectady
> Ulster
> Washington
> 
> It brings the total number of imported or enriched addresses to: 562889
> 
> --
> Skyler
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2021, at 20:32, Skyler Hawthorne wrote:
> > Hi everyone, just as a quick update, I've imported Columbia County.
> > I'm just noticing now that many of the addresses marked for review as
> > "repeat address" are because the address points in the data have a
> > Building field that I did not account for. It denotes situations
> > where there are several buildings that all have the same primary
> > address, but each building is labeled with "Building 10," etc. 
> > 
> > After looking at some more of the available fields, I also see there
> > are some repeat addresses that are also only disambiguated with the
> > Room field as well. I will be pausing the import until I can add
> > these fields, and when I have something working, I'll selectively
> > redo the import in the affected address points. 
> > 
> > It looks like the most straightforward mapping for Room would be the
> > addr:door tag. However, I do not see something that maps well to
> > Building. I asked in the tagging list, and it seems the most
> > established key in use for this is either addr:housename or ref.
> > Which is more appropriate I think just depends on your interpretation
> > of what the Building label is philosophically: a title (name) of a
> > building (house) or a reference identifier. I think I'm more inclined
> > to use addr:housename myself, though I'm interested in others'
> > thoughts. 
> > 
> > (As an aside, it seems like there really should be a addr:building
> > tag, but I don't really want to pause for however long going through
> > the proposal process could take.) 
> > 
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