[Talk-us-massachusetts] massgis address point data attribute POINT_TYPE=PC

[Greg Troxel]

"Alan & Ruth Bragg" <alan.ruth.bragg at gmail.com> writes:

> There are 7,025 nodes in the  address point shp file for Bedford.
> 366 or 5% of Bedford nodes have the attribute POINT_TYPE=PC which should
> not be imported because
> they have nothing to do with buildings. Most are placed at the centroid of
> openspace land, often on each parcel that was acquired to create the
> conservation or park land. There are 45 address nodes on the Bedford
> portion of Great Meadows NWR. Town owned lands  like well fields, sports
> fields, the dump, the loop found at the end of some roads also have PC
> nodes.
>
> I did find one node close to a house which appeared to be an error.
>
> The massgis definition of POINT_TYPE=PC is "Address multipoint represents a
> Parcel Centroid (no structure, vacant parcel)"
> Example: Red nodes are POINT_TYPE=PC
> <https://photos.app.goo.gl/tM3qYrgfmwtUpGjp8>

I don't see why you say they shouldn't be included, but I think it's
perfectly fine to exclude things for the first round as it makes things
simpler.

Addresses are not just about buildings.  Parcels without buildings have
addresses too.   But, it seems that if there are multiple legal parcels
in a single logical thing, and there are multiple points, that's a mess
and not how it should be in our db.