[talk-au] Addresses/street numbers

[Andrew Harvey]

The GNAF license is pretty open, just not open enough for importing to
OpenStreetMap. I'd still recommend any services trying to do geocoding to
also use GNAF as fallback source if not found in OSM.

On Fri, 3 Jan 2020 at 11:04, Michael Shafer <mshafer3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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