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I love the openaddresses.io project and use it as a data source for geocode.xyz (https://geocode.xyz/legal https://geocode.xyz/legal ). It seems however that th

by eruci 8y ago

I love the openaddresses.io project and use it as a data source for geocode.xyz (https://geocode.xyz/legal https://geocode.xyz/legal ). It seems however that they have stagnated in recent years (after some healthy growth initially, the number of addresses in the dataset has been hovering at just under 500M addresses globally - 496,689,649 as of the last count) Has the project been abandoned?

Cyphase 8y ago
It still appears to be active on GitHub[0][1]. Perhaps all the low-hanging fruit has been picked. As mentioned in the contributing guide[2], they only use authoritative data sources. "OpenAddresses is a collection of authoritative data for address locations around the world. We collect address data from authoritative sources; we do not create our own data. A source is a location where authoritative address data can be found. Examples might be a downloadable CSV file or live ArcServer feature service hosted by a national postal service, a state GIS department, or a county property parcel database." [0] https://github.com/openaddresses/ https://github.com/openaddresses/ [1] [for posterity] https://web.archive.org/web/20180721063519/https://github.com/openaddresses/ https://web.archive.org/web/20180721063519/https://github.co... [2] https://github.com/openaddresses/openaddresses/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md https://github.com/openaddresses/openaddresses/blob/master/C...
NelsonMinar 8y ago
No it's not abandoned at all; there's a lot of active work finding new sources. You can see a log of commits here: https://github.com/openaddresses/openaddresses/commits/master https://github.com/openaddresses/openaddresses/commits/maste... If the number doesn't go up as fast as it used to it's probably because the project has already collected all the addresses that were easy to find. Denmark's 3,689,469 addresses, for instance, are in a single CSV file. We found it once and that was it (although we do update the data every few days). The work now is mostly in finding much more challenging address data buried in databases. Also convincing government agencies to let us have the data.

by eruci 8y ago

Cyphase 8y ago

It still appears to be active on GitHub[0][1]. Perhaps all the low-hanging fruit has been picked. As mentioned in the contributing guide[2], they only use authoritative data sources. "OpenAddresses is a collection of authoritative data for address locations around the world. We collect address data from authoritative sources; we do not create our own data. A source is a location where authoritative address data can be found. Examples might be a downloadable CSV file or live ArcServer feature service hosted by a national postal service, a state GIS department, or a county property parcel database." [0] https://github.com/openaddresses/ https://github.com/openaddresses/ [1] [for posterity] https://web.archive.org/web/20180721063519/https://github.com/openaddresses/ https://web.archive.org/web/20180721063519/https://github.co... [2] https://github.com/openaddresses/openaddresses/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md https://github.com/openaddresses/openaddresses/blob/master/C...

NelsonMinar 8y ago

No it's not abandoned at all; there's a lot of active work finding new sources. You can see a log of commits here: https://github.com/openaddresses/openaddresses/commits/master https://github.com/openaddresses/openaddresses/commits/maste... If the number doesn't go up as fast as it used to it's probably because the project has already collected all the addresses that were easy to find. Denmark's 3,689,469 addresses, for instance, are in a single CSV file. We found it once and that was it (although we do update the data every few days). The work now is mostly in finding much more challenging address data buried in databases. Also convincing government agencies to let us have the data.