[talk-au] Mapping houses and addresses in Sydney

[Warin]

On 18/06/18 20:30, Andrew Harvey wrote:
> On 18 June 2018 at 19:21, Dion Moult <dion at thinkmoult.com 
> <mailto:dion at thinkmoult.com>> wrote:
>
>     Thanks Andrew for your reply!
>
>     1. Thanks for the link to the import guidelines. My responses to
>     the import guidelines below:
>
>
> First up I think any changesets that import addresses in this way 
> should have an extra changeset tag so if we need to we can identify 
> which changesets did the import (so more than just source=LPI NSW Base 
> Map). Something like import=NSW Address Points or something.

source:import=LPI API via ?? something like that?

>
> I'm not sure about separating the address with a ";" like 
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/593297556/history#map=19/-33.78072/151.06688&layers=N, 
> could they not be two separate points? If it's a duplex, then I'd do 
> it as a single building with addr:housenumber=11, then if you want two 
> nodes inside the building for 11A and 11B.
I have had separate buildings for A and B - share a common wall. In some 
instances I have 11 then 11A .. but no B.
>
> While I don't think there's anything wrong with 2/18 as a first pass, 
> eg https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5667899003, I think it's better 
> to use addr:unit=2 addr:housenumber=18.
>
>      1. I am aware that big automatic updates can cause problems. I
>     will only import addr:housenumber and addr:street and a single node.
>
>
> What are you planning on doing where the address in already in OSM? I 
> think in this case we should just not import that point and leave the 
> existing OSM addresses.
Depends .. I have come across addresses that were out of sequence. 
Contacted the still active mapper (moved to Germany) and had not 
response .. after some months I have simple deleted them.
So it is worth checking that the new data is is not 'better' than the 
present OSM data.
>
>     2. Yes, you are absolutely right that this is not a huge automatic
>     import - it relies on a human choosing what addresses to add and a
>     human submitting it as a change. All it does it automate the
>     address lookup and make sure that the node is neatly positioned at
>     the correct location.
>
>     3. It looks like you're grabbing their entire dataset. That would
>     be the alternative approach, doing a data dump, then importing
>     that dump. This can import a lot more addresses, but is also much
>     more complex. Is it worth pursuing? What do you reckon?
>
>
> Oh I'm not suggesting that. It makes sense for the OpenAddresses 
> project to use a complete extract, but as you might have seen in the 
> openaddresses ticket there's a lot of problems trying to dump the 
> data, so your approach of doing it bit by bit should work much better 
> for an OSM import.
>
>     4. It seems odd that they would provide an API but would prevent
>     anything from using it.
>     5. Looks like they are doing the big data import. See 3.
>
>
> Not quite, they did it using the approach you've described, broken it 
> down into pices and manually imported everything.

It might be good to do one section and let people have a look at it?
I do think you'll find it repetitive. Maybe take a break and map 
something else for a while.

Good Luck.
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