[talk-au] Victorian Vicmap Address Import Proposal

[Yuchen Pei]

Andrew Harvey via Talk-au <talk-au at openstreetmap.org> writes:

> I'm working with the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) on 
> a proposal to import Vicmap addresses for Victoria into OSM. For 
> context, here is the statement from the NHVR.
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>     The NHVR is making a substantial investment in the creation 
>     of a spatially based mapping tool to improve the efficiency 
>     and safety standards of the Heavy vehicle industry within 
>     Australia. As the regulator, we are particularly aware that 
>     not all heavy vehicles are suitable for all roads, and wish 
>     to ensure that heavy vehicles are aligned to the most 
>     appropriate roads wherever possible. To support the 
>     principals of open data the NHVR has made a decision to 
>     utilise OpenStreetMap as its base layer map. As such, we 
>     want to ensure that OSM is populated with the most accurate 
>     and rich data possible. Whilst NHVR’s needs are primarily to 
>     utilise pickup and delivery, depots and farms addresses used 
>     by the heavy vehicle industry, we are proposing a mass 
>     import that looks to populate both commercial and 
>     residential addresses to support the much more diverse use 
>     cases of the wider community, as well as our own.
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>     We are excited to work with the open street map community 
>     and we look forward to any and all feedback sourced from 
>     this great community.
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> While my work on this is supported by the NHVR, the community 
> ultimately has the say on if this import happens, and how.
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> I've been preparing code and documentation on what I'm proposing 
> for a potential import at 
> https://gitlab.com/alantgeo/vicmap2osm/, it's still a work in 
> progress at this stage, it will continue to evolved based on 
> feedback here and as I continue to work on it. I'm yet to put 
> together a formal import plan on the OSM wiki, as I wanted to 
> get community feedback first.
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> I'm keen to hear any feedback for this potential import, or 
> answer any questions.

Joseph: I am new to OSM, was exploring the possibility of 
importing VIC addresses and definitely did not have an import plan 
:)

Is the reason that you think it should be done quickly to avoid 
dirty reverts?

Andrew: Regarding the proposal, looks good so far. I have not 
finished reading the code yet.

I agree with:
- The plan of substuting addr:city with addr:suburb when the two 
  matches, given suburbs and localities are used for addresses 
  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suburbs_and_localities_(Australia)).
- The plan of using addr:flats for overlapping units

Regarding unit type, why not just use addr:unit for all types, 
including "UNIT", "SHOP", "SUITE" etc. instead of discarding the 
information?

Thanks for putting together this proposal - really well written 
(and educational too)!

Best,
Yuchen