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

[Tod Fitch]

> On Mar 15, 2016, at 2:04 PM, Roman Yepishev <rye at keypressure.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

My experience has been that unless the addr:street value and the name value on the street match exactly, including matching case, you will have data consumers having issues. And it will be flagged as an error by at least some of the QA tools: http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=addresses&lon=-71.09418&lat=42.37788&zoom=13&overlays=buildings_with_addresses,street_not_found,nodes_with_addresses_defined,connection_lines,nearest_points,nearest_roads

I don’t know what the OSM consensus is for this but it seems to me that some standard should be decided on for the street names and then the addr:street values should match that. If the MassDOT road names are official then I’d process the addresses to match that.

Tod


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