[Talk-us] US Addressing

[Ian Dees]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net>wrote:

> Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> > It looks pretty good from what I saw, with the obvious exception
> > that newer homes aren't tagged.  I'm going to clean up my code
> > a bit and stick it up on github somewhere.
>
> If you chaps are all dead set on doing another massive TIGER import - hey,
> it's your funeral - could I at least urge a little caution on the
> practicalities of it all?
>

I really don't want to support a complete TIGER address import unless our
effort at finding "real" local addressing data fails in some places.


> Just having a look at the .osm file posted here, for example, the street
> names are all unexpanded: Washington St, Park Ave, Deer Run Ln, etc. There
> have been about 937 threads about expanding TIGER street names since the
> initial import and it would be a shame to fall into the same hole again.
>

Just about all the data I've seen is unexpanded. We'll probably have to
deal with that on a per-county basis (assuming we're not importing TIGER).


>
> I'm also very very doubtful about the value of importing city, state and
> (!)
> country: if we don't have polygons for all of those already, then we really
> should. Importing n billion nodes into the States which all say "hey, this
> is in the States" will bloat the database and hammer download speeds for
> absolutely no gain whatsoever.


I think that anything beyond house number, street, and maybe city would be
superfluous and shouldn't be included in addressing imports and will try to
advocate for that.
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