[Talk-us-massachusetts] MassGIS address import -- on duplicates and weird housenumbers

[John Goodman]

On 2018.08.01 13:45, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> John Goodman<jg1 at qlam.com>  writes:
> 
>> Indeed. Two additional special situations that import scripts should
>> be aware of:
>>
>> 1) Adjacent parcels that are both numbered the same in Mass GIS, but
>> really one has an "A" or "REAR" suffix. For example, 28 and 28A.

> So you are saying that the data is wrong in massgis?  This is
> surprising, because the point of them doing addresses was 911 support,
> and 20/20A are different places.  I wonder if we can detect the presence
> of two address points with the same address and exclude them from the
> first round, and/or find out how this is supposed to work.


Yes, it appears wrong. Here's an example: 41 Elm Street and 41 Rear Elm 
Street in Stoneham. Both show in the Mass GIS data viewer as simply "41 
ELM STREET".

John