[talk-au] Question about importing Victoria street addresses

[Graeme Fitzpatrick]

On Sat, 15 May 2021 at 09:05, Joseph Guillaume <josephguillaume at gmail.com>
wrote:

> My main concern would be to decide where addresses will be added. My
> preference is to place on buildings (
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-au/2021-April/014554.html),
> but there aren't many buildings in OSM yet, and I'm not keen on importing
> geometries even if they are available (e.g.
> https://batch.openaddresses.io/job/100514). We could focus on the few
> areas that have buildings and no addresses. Alternatively I'd be keen for
> the address placement strategy to be discussed on this list rather than
> simply using the coordinates in the import directly.
>

People in Brisbane went through this process last (?) year, & they just
used address nodes placed over the visible building at each address eg
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/-27.56422/153.06227

Seems to work well (well enough for navigation at least!)

Thanks

Graeme
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