[Talk-us] Address improvement through imports?

Brad Neuhauser brad.neuhauser at gmail.com
Wed Nov 16 16:24:32 GMT 2011


just an FYI--some states have laws limiting who can access voter data
and/or what purposes the data can be used for (usually related to
elections/campaigning)

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:

> Voter records are a good idea.  And business registration records /
> business tax records also.  I think getting the business addresses is
> going to be the harder task.  But maybe if we merge data from multiple
> sources we can get a decent portion of it.
>
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Metcalf, Calvin (DOT)
> <calvin.metcalf at state.ma.us> wrote:
> > To suplimnett it you could use the voter file, it'll have all the
> residential addresses, while not usefull on its own it'll give you fairly
> acurate ranges for residential streets.
> > in america its public domain, getting it can be tricky and usually
> involves requesting it from towns
> > Sent with Verizon Mobile Email
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> >
> > ---Original Message---
> > From: "Anthony" <osm at inbox.org>
> > Sent: 11/14/2011 9:36 pm
> > To: "Bryce Nesbitt" <bryce2 at obviously.com>
> > Cc: talk-us at openstreetmap.org
> > Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Address improvement through imports?
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Bryce Nesbitt <bryce2 at obviously.com>
> wrote:
> >> The parcel data is a superset of address data...
> >
> > Not when there's more than one address to a parcel, which around here
> > unfortunately is a common occurrence in exactly the places where
> > address information is most useful (strip malls and such).
> >
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