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

[Skyler Hawthorne]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2021, at 13:21, Jack Arnold via Imports wrote:
> Hi Skyler,
> 
> Goodwork as usual! I might have found some more weird behavior, but
> overall a smooth import.
> 
> I'm looking at the "Elmwood Village Area", and there are few (~3 per
> block) address points imported in comparison to many buildings. This
> appears to be the case for most of area north of downtown Buffalo. In
> city blocks where there aren't any buildings, the address points are
> populated. Not sure if this data is just missing from the source
> dataset.

Hi Jack, thanks so much for looking over the data! A search for "Elmwood Village" didn't turn anything up in Nominatim; could you give a coordinate with the approximate location so I can take a look, just to confirm whether or not this data is simply missing from the source?

> 
> There are also some address points imported that didn't get merged with
> building footprints:
> 
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/8454667934
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/8454665917
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/8454666256
> 
> The building footprints under them are only tagged "building=yes", so
> maybe it confused the software when trying to read for the "addr" tags?

Huh, that is strange. There are a few of these in this area. There are lots of other points that got conflated with their buildings, so it seems to be particular to this area. I'll take a closer look tonight and see if I can figure out what happened. Thanks for finding this!
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