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Data Request to add York Region Address Point, Building Footprint, and possibly Imagery #1371

Open winghongchan opened 5 months ago

winghongchan commented 5 months ago

What kind of data are you inquiring about?

Addresses, Buildings, and Imagery

Data License

York Region Open Data License

This license was recently deemed compatible by the License Working Group. https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/OGL_Canada_and_local_variants

Background / where to download this data

winghongchan commented 5 months ago

With regards to the Canadian addresses in the Address Points, here’s how I’d map them:

OSM key Address Point attribute
addr:housenumber ADDRESS_NUMBER
addr:street FULL_STREET_NAME
addr:district MAIL_COMMUNITY_NAME*¹
addr:city*² MUNICIPALITY
addr:province (same for all addresses, it’s “Ontario”)
addr:postcode MAIL_POSTAL_CODE*³

*¹ If it’s “Thornhill,” include it. Thornhill is a district that overlaps parts of the cities of Vaughan and Markham. addr:city is included because officially they are in those cities — they receive public services, pay taxes, and vote as residents of those cities. addr:district is included because if you want to mail something to an address in Thornhill, you write “Thornhill” in place of the city. For other MAIL_COMMUNITY_NAME values I’d have to do more research with Canada Post to see if they should be included. If addr:district if it matches addr:city, addr:district is redundant and should be omitted.

*² York Region is divided into several towns and cities. addr:city is used in both types of municipalities, and the OSM wiki suggests this is a correct usage.

*³ Not all addresses have postal codes, for example, parks.

tordans commented 5 months ago

Background / where to download this data

Adding the background images to various editors would be something for https://github.com/osmlab/editor-layer-index and the corresponding JOSM index. The editor layer index is used here in Rapid and in iD. You can add aerial imagery but also other categories of data (if they are really useful for a wide range of mappers).