[Talk-us] [Imports] Boston, MA, USA addr:housenumber Import

[Roman Yepishev]

Hi Clifford, thank you for the message. The answers are inline below.

On Tue, 2016-03-15 at 13:40 -0700, Clifford Snow wrote:

> 1.) Automatically updating the street name to match the address
> records is not advisable. My experience doing address imports, the
> address information may not match the street signs. There may be two
> different departments responsible for the information, accessor and
> highway/street department. 

OK, that's a valid point. I will not overwrite the street info based on
punctuation differences since then the MassDOT names will no longer
match.

> 2.) Is there addr:city and addr:postcode information available to add
> with the import?
Actually yes, there is the zip_code field in the source data. The city
is Boston for all these buildings.

I assumed that a ZIP code information is handled by some relation, and
not attached to the building. Just read about addr:postcode on wiki and
I don't see a reason why that can't be added to the buildings while we
are at it.

> 
> 3) Just looking at one neighborhood, Allston-Brighton, the .osc
> contains building=yes. Does that mean if a building outline is tagged
> building=residential or any other building tag it will be retagged
> building=yes?
The selection runs on anything that has a tag key building  (and value
is not 'no', just in case). No change of building type will be
performed.

> 4) Is it really necessary to upload that many notes during the
> import? if a building is missing, can you add a node with the address
> information instead of leaving a note?
I should have been clear on that - the notes generated are not designed
to be uploaded at all. It's just the only way I found that I can put a
marker on the map and be able to see it in JOSM without creating a POI.

I have updated the wiki page with the above clarifications.

-- 
Sincerely,
Roman
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