[Talk-GB] UK address project update

[Rob Nickerson]

Ken wroote:

>My only concern is that, in an area where the addresses have already been
added to OSM (esp. by survey), the tool will have to be careful to *not*
recommend adding duplicate addresses.

Yes, this is also something we are aware of and working on. It is Topic 2
in my September email [1] and I have alluded to how our choice of green or
red dots affects the ability to do this de-duplication filtering.

For the avoidance of doubt, the map that has been shown now is not the
final product. The final project consists of a backend database that sends
"potential addressable locations" (i.e. the red or green points) to a web
based editing tool. I have not shown the web based editing tool yet but the
process to filter out points that already have an address in OSM will
happen there. Doing it this way means it is always live and up to date with
OSM.

The map you are seeing now is a visualisation of the back end database. We
will send the red points to the web based editing tool, but as noted this
creates gaps in some locations, hence my questions around whether we should
manually "pull through" some of the green points into OSM so they become
available in the web based editing tool as well.

Please accept my apologies that I haven't been clear on this in my earlier
emails. I've been working on this since February so I forget that I have to
strip it back to basics when speaking about it!

[1]
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2021-September/027669.html

Thank you,
*Rob*
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