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

[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

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).


-- 
Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es> <ivan at geonerd.org> 
<ivan at mazemap.no>