New Zealand has been added to https://opensupermaps.com/

#OpenAddresses #opensupermaps #openstreetmap #osmand

In all the enthusiasm celebrating #OpenStreetMaps 20th birthday, I've noted a more sombre anniversary. The day before the 10th birthday party in London was when an #OpenAddresses symposium organised by @JeniT. Other than rather more addresses in #OpenStreetMap I'm not sure that we've moved very far with #OpenData for addresses in the UK.

There have been some sops from the #GeospatialCommision, such as OpenUPRNs, but usually heaviky compromised by lack of any relevant metadata.

I became aware of this #OvertureMaps PR¹ and you can tell that it seems they haven’t read “Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses”².

“All addresses have [...] street, number, [...] postcode.” Good luck recording addresses in Japan!

UPDATE! @jwass2000 (who opened the PR) and @ian (founder of #OpenAddresses) have replied saying that the address schema is intentionally simple at first but will eventually be more sophisticated.

¹ https://github.com/OvertureMaps/schema/pull/193

² https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addresses/

2024-03-27 08:50:48,719 root INFO fr_countrywide_addresses_country DELETE 441766 1 word street

hope that regex was right 🙄. Looks like some more #openaddresses spelunking is in order

Looking good for a #opensupermaps release this month.

Cleaned some garbage from #openaddresses that caused the release delay and handled a new issue where a source came with z data.

sooo it turns out the bad data I found from #openaddresses was more pervasive than I thought. Street field is a mess of prefix/suffix only, direction only, street name only and everything in between.

Most of the way done for mitigation of the first combinations I was aware of, but found more before I finished debugging.