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

[Alan & Ruth Bragg]

Thanks John, I retract my comment about not importing  addr:housenumber=0.
Actually, I've seen some crazy stuff in Billerica in an old cottage
community where two new houses were inserted between single digit numbers
with values in the 50's.
Alan


On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 5:59 PM John Goodman <jg1 at qlam.com> wrote:

> On 2018.07.24 17:37, Alan & Ruth Bragg wrote:
> > There are already 35 buildings in MA with an address of 0. It's
> > certainly suspicious.
>
> But not necessarily incorrect. I've mapped several addresses of zero,
> confirmed by multiple sources (town assessor's data, USPS ZIP code by
> address web page, view of the house number itself).
>
> For example: 0 Carmen Avenue, Stoneham, MA 02180 (42.482943,
> -71.077575), a house put up (probably after a property division)
> forty-odd years after addresses 1, 2, 3, 4 etc. Rather than renumber
> everyone, they were assigned address zero.
>
> John Goodman
>
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