[OSM-talk] Adding Addresses to OSM

[Andy Robinson]

Simon Hewison thought
>Sent: 13 September 2006 9:32 AM
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>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Adding Addresses to OSM
>
>Andy Robinson wrote:
>> I think postal codes stopped the need to hold a lot of address data.
>Since
>> we don’t have postal_codes then we may want to use historical address
>> sources instead.
>
>That works reasonably well for countries where the postal code gets down as
>far as which side of the street, or in some cases, the individual property
>(e.g. United Kingdom, Netherlands). In many countries, it only gets as far
>as the local delivery office by the postal code.
>
>US zipcodes are very rarely used by senders in their full form, and many
>recipients don't know their full ZIP+4 code.
>
>
>Talking of addresses, I did some digging on my local council website about
>street names and addressing. It seems that when a developer builds a new
>street, the developer gets to chose the name of the street, but it must
>conform to certain rules:
>
>You can't, for instance call something "Foobar Crescent" when it is in fact
>a square, and not crescent shaped at all, nor can the first part of the
>street name be repeated in a local vinicity, and street numbers should
>start
>at one.
>
>(I have found at least five streets that do not follow those rules)
>
>The local council then having taken a fee (per property), and upon
>officially recognising the street (or property), will put it into their GIS
>system, and notify the Royal Mail, and Ordnance Survey (as well as others),
>of its existence.
>
>As such, it got me thinking. Would it be worthwhile declaring an interest
>in
>the street changes notifications with various borough councils, or am I
>just
>  a dreamer that publicly collected information should be available to the
>public?


Interesting thought. worth a trial run with one to see what comes out. Then
if successful and we find the format there is no reason others cannot go
around all the other councils. Suggest you try a first put at your local
council.

Cheers

Andy

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