[talk-au] Addresses/street numbers

[Michael Shafer]

Ah I totally missed this project — looks great! Thanks Dion, I’ll have a crack at contributing.

Michael
On 3 Jan 2020, 11:07 AM +1100, Dion Moult <dion at thinkmoult.com>, wrote:
> Good morning Michael!
>
> Have you seen the NSW address import project? It uses the LPI web services:
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> https://gitlab.com/dionmoult/osm-nsw-address-import
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> There are a few contributors who occasionally upload suburbs! You will notice we have made quite a dent in a few areas.
>
> Dion Moult
>
>
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Friday, January 3, 2020 11:02 AM, Michael Shafer <mshafer3 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > I noticed that street number information is quite sparse around where I live in Sydney, then saw it’s because the GNAF license is incompatible with OSM (as tracked by @aharvey here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_data_catalogue).
> >
> > This is pretty unfortunate as it means address search and routing tools can only point you to the street, but not the individual property. (Noticed when trying to geocode my own address!)
> >
> > Does anyone know of other techniques for getting address information at scale? e.g. does Mapillary try to detect street numbers from street-level imagery?
> >
> > Interestingly Mapbox does have street numbers where I live, I wonder where they are getting that information.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Michael
>
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