[postgis-devel] [PostGIS] #2009: Disable loading of addrfeat

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#2009: Disable loading of addrfeat
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 Reporter:  robe            |       Owner:  robe         
     Type:  defect          |      Status:  new          
 Priority:  medium          |   Milestone:  PostGIS 2.1.0
Component:  tiger geocoder  |     Version:  trunk        
 Keywords:                  |  
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 I have officially decided to disable the loading of addrfeat.  In my
 opinion it just takes up space.

 What finally sold me was this:
 http://www.postgis.org/pipermail/postgis-users/2012-September/035297.html

 Right now it's taking up a lot of space and We are not using it.  We are
 not using it for a couple of reasons:

 1) Takes up more disk space
 2) I don't think it will be faster than the joins we are doing already and
 we would just be swapping joins for CASE statements thus probably not
 improving readability much

 3) We can't really use it for reverse geocoding as a lot of our reverse
 geocoding involves non-addressable locations like ramps and exits on
 highways.  Though geocoding non-addressable regions isn't perfect, it puts
 us in the ball-park.  These aren't I don't think covered in addrfeat.

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