[Talk-us] Import of addresses for San Francisco, CA

[Michal Migurski]

One building can definitely have more than a single address.

Addresses provide postal delivery information and don't necessarily correspond 1:1 with other concepts like physical buildings or legal parcels.

-mike.

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> On Jun 18, 2020, at 11:08 AM, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Legally in San Francisco does the address refer to the property, the building, or the entrance? 
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> While I'm from California originally, I admit that I don't know the definition of an address there. 
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> If one building can have more than one address (based on separate entrances), then it would be best to use nodes.
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> - Joseph Eisenberg
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> On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 9:36 AM Yury Yatsynovich <yury.yatsynovich at gmail.com <mailto:yury.yatsynovich at gmail.com>> wrote:
> I saw addresses in SF mapped both ways -- some are mapped as nodes inside the buildings or on contours of buildings (as entrances); others are added directly on the ways/relations of buildings.
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> On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 12:20 PM Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com <mailto:joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >  matching buildings to address points
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> I support the idea of adding missing addresses. However, is it best practice to match the address with the building area? 
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> Currently in SF are almost all addresses matched with buildings, or are some mapped as nodes or separate area features?
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> -- Joseph Eisenberg
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> On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 8:30 AM Yury Yatsynovich <yury.yatsynovich at gmail.com <mailto:yury.yatsynovich at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> I've been recently thinking about importing addresses for San Francisco, CA.
> It looks like there has been interest in this kind of import (the page devoted to it was created in 2010, https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Address_Import <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Address_Import>).
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> So, please, consider this message as my "community buy-in": does anyone have any objections related to this possible import?
> By now I've obtained a permit from the data owner (https://data.sfgov.org/Geographic-Locations-and-Boundaries/Addresses-Enterprise-Addressing-System/3mea-di5p <https://data.sfgov.org/Geographic-Locations-and-Boundaries/Addresses-Enterprise-Addressing-System/3mea-di5p>) and almost finished writing my code for matching buildings to address points.
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> If there are no objections, I'll go on with organising all documentation and sharing the code/resulting .osm-files for review by OSM community.
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> Looking forward to receiving your feedback!
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> p.s. I have some experience in importing addresses (e.g., see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue/MassGIS_Addresses <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue/MassGIS_Addresses>)
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