The Future of Addresses Is Open: Launching OpenAddresses
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello all! First time posting, here but long time listener. I am proud to launch a new initiative to store and standardize open address data. - From our blog post: Street address data is essential infrastructure. Street names, house numbers, zip codes combined with geographic coordinates are the hub that connects digital to physical places. Precisely because of their connecting role, free and open addresses are rocket fuel for civic and commercial innovation. Many governments have realized this and have published their address datasets under open licenses. OpenAddresses sets out to catalogue these sources, provide tools to make them easier to use, and to build pressure on sources that aren?t open yet. OpenAddresses is a global repository for open address data. In good open source fashion, OpenAddresses provides a space to collaborate. Today, OpenAddresses is a downloadable archive of address files, it is an API to ingest those address files into your application and, more than anything, it is a place to gather more addresses and create a movement: add your government?s address file and if there isn?t one online yet, petition for it. The future of addresses is open. Let?s get to work on it here: openaddresses.io <http://openaddresses.io/>. Download the growing 1.9GB archive of addresses <http://openaddresses.io/#download>, add address files you know about <http://openaddresses.io/#contribute> and use the developer APIs to work with addresses <http://openaddresses.io/#developers>. Cheers, Nicholas Ingalls -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTMINDAAoJECXd4O9NGAgimOYH/Ri77TmCNQX0Nmb1ZrBbRZzD ryVDGwBtX5913+SSP0v67SJY3Lnqo0gEgxXdtd3kMhJsdB8nHI1UUPE994jxJNz8 qIieoza2rGjH589m4qra02B3sWXhK2ullJ9/oYizEJulynq2PLQZAYzX5shRJL3G 1pcW4cZE7sX7Mdw2bUwame0gZu5Sd1bNNEDYh0znFrkHQTaK42iWIrXN3rBlMbSJ EQDPgmO6I51NzAkO1m72SFJzQze+QO+msCrdsHtobCarn8nsxO1TA8S4eSVnEAO/ MbQg1oIqGixmzYBAGY8hpNSqIjDWL8+idYjnBKwwzevvK323ZIDEswN//Voqrho= =MfHR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ CivicAccess-discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.pwd.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss |
Re: The Future of Addresses Is Open: Launching OpenAddresses
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Hi Nicholas,
Awesome! I noticed errors in the Canadian files, which I’ve reported in the issue tracker. You may be able to find additional data by going through the data catalogs at http://datacatalogs.org/group/canada Cheers, James On Mar 24, 2014, at 3:10 PM, ingalls <[hidden email]> wrote:
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Re: The Future of Addresses Is Open: Launching OpenAddresses
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Thumbs up to having addresses available. One thing I have observed in the past is that many jurisdictions don't actually have an official database of addresses. The taxation people will have one list, the census folks another list but there is no "official" list. Developers will come in and make up their own addresses. On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 2:07 PM, James McKinney <[hidden email]> wrote:
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