[Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Karlruhe Scheme addressing ways from 2009 TIGER data

[SteveC]

On Nov 14, 2009, at 5:49 AM, andrzej zaborowski wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 2009/11/14 SteveC <steve at asklater.com>:
>> In Denver the houses are all set back a lot further, so some way to say 'on north-south roads, set back X feet' might help a lot. Or, in JOSM just search for all the ways that make up the addressing on one side of the street and move them manually. Many times for each one.
> 
> I've done a similar import of address data in my area and when writing
> the converter I forgot to do the projection the first time, this
> resulted in a similar effect to what you describe.  I've not seen
> Dave's data but looking at the code he's using there's no projection
> to mercaartor when offsetting the interpolation ways.  My ugly code is
> at http://repo.or.cz/w/ump2osm.git
> 
>> In San Francisco, for divided highways the old TIGER data used to bow in to a point every block and we had, I think, automated ways to split those out in to two straight lines. This is reflected with little bows on the address lines at each intersection - see guerrero for example.
> 
> What really needs to be done for TIGER addresses import is match the
> streets from TIGER to those in OSM (which should be easy since they
> all still have the TIGER id's) and generate the address geometry based
> on these.  Otherwise someone will need to do all of the geometry
> corrections that people have done for this data in the last nearly 2
> years.

yeah but that might be non-trivial, whereas I'm happy to go over an entire county budging things

> 
> Cheers
> 

Yours &c.

Steve