[OSGeo-Discuss] Open source / open data related to addressing/geocoding

Eli Adam eadam at co.lincoln.or.us
Tue Apr 21 07:59:55 PDT 2015


On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 1:37 AM, Iván Sánchez <ivan at sanchezortega.es> wrote:
> El Martes 21. abril 2015 10.10.13 Serena Coetzee escribió:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> on Thursday this week, I am presenting about open source and open data to
>> the Addressing Group of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), a UN organization
>> with 192 member countries [1]. If you know about interesting open source
>> software or open data related to addressing and/or geocoding, let me know.
>> Anything that I receive by Wednesday evening, I could include in the
>> presentation.
>
> You might want to include something about the different ideas that the
> OpenStreetMap community had about addressing schemas:
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Proposed_features/House_numbers&oldid=222287
>
> Also:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Karlsruhe_Schema
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Addresses
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim
>
>
> I also remember a few remarks during the intro of last year's FOSS4G about the
> (low) quality of open-source geocoders. Alas, I've been unable to locate a
> video recording of the intro (before the first keynote).

Do you mean, https://vimeo.com/album/3039586/video/106862980?

Best Regards, Eli

>
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