[Talk-us] Addresses and Tiger

[Paul Johnson]

Adam Schreiber wrote:
> 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.

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