[Geodata] inventory of public address data for geocoding in Europe

[Milo van der Linden]

Hello Moritz,

Geodata Discovery and geocoding are two different things.On the OSGeo
wiki there is an (outdated) page on opengeocoder.
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OpenGeocoder maybe that can be a starting
point for you?

About the services you mention: I am currently in the process of
importing BAG address data into OpenStreetMap, particulary for the
nominatim geocoding service
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim

Perhaps OpenStreetMap might be a good place to hold global address
data? I think it might. But of course other ideas are most welcome!

Good luck on your project and good to see you are addressing the
addressing issue ;-)

2013/3/13 Moritz Lennert <mlennert at club.worldonline.be>:
> Hello,
>
> I'm hoping to be able to revive this list a bit with a specific project: In
> the context of my research, I'm currently trying to compile an inventory of
> public open address data usable for geocoding (or possibly publicly
> accessible geocoding services). At this stage I have already come upon the
> following data sources:
>
> Spain: CartoCiudad
> France: BD Adresses and the PointsAdresses from IGN France
> Netherlands: BAG Compact from the Dutch Cadaster
> Belgium: The Geodatabases from the three Belgian regions (UrBIS, PLI and
> AGIV)
> - Great Britain: Code-Point from the Ordnance Survey (not address, but
> postcodes which are very dense in GB)
>
> The output could be a list of such data on [1], but should also lead to a
> publication providing other research teams with the information and an
> evaluation of the possibilities of geocoding based on public, open data in
> Europe today.
>
> Several questions:
>
> - Should/can I start a table on [1] ? Is there a better place ?
> - Does anyone have knowledge of similar data sets in other European
> countries ?
> - Does anyone have knowledge of already existing inventories on such data ?
>
> Any feedback is more than welcome !
>
> Moritz
>
>
>
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geodata_Discovery_Working_Group
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