[Qgis-user] offline address geocoding

[Clifford Snow]

On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 1:28 PM, David Hiers <davidhiers7836 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> As you know, its all about location.  After the quake/tsunami flattens the
> pacific northwest, we'll be flooded with damage reports, support requests,
> pop-up shelter locations, etc, all of which will probably be expressed in
> terms of street address, intersection, or landmark.  To do any sort of
> automated work with that data (estimate the impact of the cloud of
> methyl-ethyl-badness from the derailed train car, for instance), first
> thing I want to do is to geocode everything so I can do math on it.


That should be a project that OSM can help with. We have some experience
mapping prior to and especially after disasters. Living in the PNW has made
me acutely aware of the environment we live in. Not only am I near Puget
Sound, in the middle of earthquake county, but the damn river near by
floods every year!

Addresses interested me because of the opportunity for door to door
routing. Interpolation is nice if you have all day to find the address. But
don't try it at night. Being able to route right up a driveway to the front
door, while being a long way off, is do able. We just need more volunteer
mappers. (I'm always making the pitch. Don't let me scare you off.) We had
a good number of volunteers import building and address to Seattle. If you
look at Seattle, every address and building should be in OSM. Next we want
to extend at least the address mapping to all of King County.

I can use what you said to help encourage more people to help out.

BTW - We could not do this without QGIS and PostGIS. They are a life saver.


Thanks,
-- 
Clifford

OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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