[OSM-talk] Launching OpenAddresses

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2014-03-27 2:41 GMT+01:00 Alex Barth <alex at mapbox.com>:

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> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Johan C <osmned at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Open data initiatives will help in acquiring address data: for  example
>> by July 2015 close to 200 million addresses in the EU will be available for
>> OSM because of a change in the national laws.
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>
> What do you base those numbers on?
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>
In Italy the national institute of statistics have been commissioned to
build the national cadastre of addresses and roads (they are publishing
with an open license since some time ago). It's a pity the addresses won't
be georeferenced to coordinates but to census unit, so no usefulness to
us...


> Cheers
>
>
Regards,
Stefano

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