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

[Greg Troxel]

John Goodman <jg1 at qlam.com> writes:

> 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".

If you have the energy, it would be interesting to look up the data
authority (town GIS dept?) and ask them about it, and see what kind of
response you get.