[talk-au] Victorian Vicmap Address Import Proposal

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Thu, 27 May 2021, 8:09 pm Andrew Davidson, <theswavu at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 25/5/21 4:41 pm, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > I'd make a polite argument there is still value in at least the suburb,
> > possibly postcode being still provided.  When exporting data via
> > overpass as CSV; it's not currently easy or obvious to appropriately
> > bring in the parent attributes; even if it is for a Real Human looking
> > at the map.
> > There's a fair number of use cases for "data in a spreadsheet
> > friendly format" I feel.
>
> You don't need to add addr:suburb to get that, all you need is a little
> Python.
>

Look, as a dev as well, yes this is absolutely doable.
If this were a one click addon to an overpass query or otherwise massively
dropped the barriers for non devs, fantastic.
But at least for me personally, the folks like us that can do a data import
ALSO have the skills to handle bulk edits for maintenance, I feel we should
make it as easy as possible to use the resulting data.


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