[Talk-ca] Proposed import: Service New Brunswick address data

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On 2012-06-21 15:13, Connors, Bernie (SNB) wrote:
> J.P.,
>
> 	Service New Brunswick (SNB) has started a project to create the New
> Brunswick Road Network (NBRN).  The NBRN will actually be produced
> through the Department of Public Safety and it's agency - Ambulance
> New Brunswick.  SNB will provide some guidance, QC, and funding.  I
> mention the NBRN project because the NBRN data will include 
> block-face
> addressing on the road segments.  Is it possible that the NBRN data
> will be a better data source for addressing in OSM instead of the
> civic address points?  I don't know the answer but I hope this
> information will be helpful.
>

Depends. I remember you bringing this up at the last Fredericton mappy 
hour. They'd both have their pros and cons...like I said, it looks to me 
like one may be better in urban areas, the other in rural.

Maybe we could use some sort of hybrid.