[Talk-us] Addresses and Tiger

[Adam Schreiber]

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Theodore Book <tbook at libero.it> wrote:
> I have been playing around with the TIGER 2008 data, which, for some of
> the counties around Atlanta seems to be much better than the old data.
> If I import it for some of the counties, though, I would like to import
> the addresses in a format that would be usable for routing software.
> The most popular schema seems to be the Karlsruhe Schema, but making use
> of it would require generating three OSM ways for each TIGER way - one
> on either side to represent the houses on that side of the road.  That
> seems unnecessarily complex, but there does not seem to be any widely
> accepted schema that places the data on the way itself.  Does anyone
> have any thoughts on that question?

I think you're spot on about the Karlsruhe schema.  In general it's a
good fit for the US.  Ideally, instead of creating ways to interpolate
along we'd get parcel and/or building data freed from somewhere and
put the addresses on those.

Cheers,

Adam