[Talk-ca] [Imports] [Talk-us] TIGER considered harmful

[Kate Chapman]

Hi Dan,

Both manual and donated data.  I've been addressing my neighborhood in  
Virginia but Washington D.C. donated point level addresses.

Kate Chapman

On Nov 15, 2009, at 6:37 PM, Dan Putler <dan.putler at sauder.ubc.ca>  
wrote:

> Hi Kate,
>
> How have the address points been obtained? From OSM users? The Census
> Bureau has collected and created a national data set of them in
> preparation for the 2010 Census, but for non-disclosure reasons, they
> have no intention of releasing them to the public. The next possible
> public source of this type of information would be based on county
> assessor parcel data, but that is limited to those counties that have
> released their parcel data (although, counties that have released
> address ranged centerline street data also tend to be the same ones  
> who
> released their parcel data).
>
> Dan
>
> On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 18:28 -0500, Kate Chapman wrote:
>> Dave,
>>
>>
>> Understood, I would envision it being a partially manual and  
>> partially
>> automated process.
>>
>>
>> Maybe I'm confused about the address versus road information.  I  
>> would
>> think the address point would be the front door of the building and
>> would not be a relation to the road.  So the node of the address and
>> the way of the road would not be on top of each other.
>>
>>
>> Is this incorrect?
>>
>>
>> -Kate Chapman
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Dave Hansen <dave at sr71.net> wrote:
>>        On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 18:11 -0500, Kate Chapman wrote:
>>> What's wrong with doing automated addressing imports in
>>        situations
>>> where we have point level address data?
>>
>>
>>        The issue is that it may not line up with the roads at all.
>>         We also
>>        need to ensure that we *find* the roads to which it refers to
>>        ensure
>>        that we get the relations done properly.
>>
>>        If people find a way to do that, it shouldn't be a problem.
>>
>>
>>> Or are you just referring to not importing the addressing
>>        that is
>>> available for the Tiger data?
>>
>>        -- Dave
>>
>>
>>
> -- 
> Dan Putler
> Sauder School of Business
> University of British Columbia
>