[Talk-us] [Imports] [Talk-ca] TIGER considered harmful

[Lord-Castillo, Brett]

I'm still getting a handle on the schemas in use for OSM, and noticed that concept of matching address nodes to ways when doing imports.
I'm not so sure this will be very functional for floodplain counties or heavy agricultural counties. We have thousands of addresses with no corresponding roads; the roads were wiped out in 1993 but the parcels still remain (and we even get regular 911 calls for those addresses on roads that have not existed for 15 years). Same thing for rural areas; plenty of addresses with no corresponding roads. As a further complication, it is very common for an address to have a completely different jurisdiction from the road, since roads are the main divider for municipal/unincorporated boundaries (and you have a lot of those with 90+ munis in 500 sq miles).

Brett Lord-Castillo
Information Systems Designer/GIS Programmer
St. Louis County Police
Office of Emergency Management
14847 Ladue Bluffs Crossing Drive
Chesterfield, MO 63017
Office: 314-628-5400
Fax: 314-628-5508
Direct: 314-628-5407