[OSM-talk] Addressing SIG

[Simon Poole]

The issue with addresses is definitely not due to a lack of tools for
OSM contributors. For example
https://regio-osm.de/hausnummerauswertung/anzeige_dynamisch.html?land=Schweiz&lon=8.71423&lat=47.05777&zoom=8&layers=B0000
which covers essentially all the analytics needed for comparison with
open data datasets and that since years (not mention the various address
QA layers available, again since years). On the data entry side there
are good tools both for surveying, import and conflation en masse.

What might be missing is simpler variant of
https://osmybiz.osm.ch/#/18/47.40514/8.40289 (I actually have the domain
addmyaddress.org stashed away somewhere for that), but while it would be
nice to provide a simple facility for people to check and potentially
add their address, it is clear that the targeted long tail is not going
to make a substantial difference in coverage.

So what it really boils down to is grunt work*time (and that is even
true for imports). In Central Europe we are well on the way to
acceptable coverage, given a couple of years more I suspect it will be
really good. Nearly everywhere else (special case the US, and apologies
to all the the exceptions to "nearly everywhere") we are missing
essential metadata that should come first, aka road names and
references, POIs, places and so on, essentially all the stuff that
building doodling and ML doesn't provide, but is essential to actually
having a usable map.

Simon

Am 07.11.2019 um 13:18 schrieb marc marc:
> Hello,
>
>> We've been "addressing the address topic" for more than 
>> 5 years in France with our BANO project.
> and despite the amount of opendata information available, 5 years later,
> there is still a lot of red (missing road name or mismatch between
> osm and opendata).
>
> I agree with the original author: there is a lack of a simple tool
> to contribute more effectively to addresses.
> for example a new contributor has no way to validate the name of a 
> street from the opendata. Osmose and BANO layers are good advanced tools 
> but are not adapted to this kind of beginner audience but also out of 
> their sight.
>
> there is also a lack of awareness that missing addresses are
> a lack of osm compared to some proprietary solutions.
>
> Regards,
> Marc
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