[Talk-us] US Addressing

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think we should crowd-source an effort to collect as much local addressing
> data as possible, convert it to OSM format, and import it. Obviously we
> should do it in a controlled manner and follow the usual import guidelines,
> but a large part of the work is in collecting the data in the first place
> and convincing municipalities to license it to us in a compatible manner.

The Iowa DNR has an ongoing project to provide statewide geocoding
data.  As of this summer they had about 50% of the state covered:

http://iagiservicebureau.blogspot.com/2012/06/first-batch-of-geocoding-project-points.html

It would be fairly trivial to convert these shape files and import them.

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Jeff Ollie