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Re:Australian Geocoded national address data to be made open... by oxplot on Monday December 07, 2015 @09:04AM (#10689446)
Thanks. I'm actually one of those people who was under the impression that USA data was fairly complete.
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Re:Australian Geocoded national address data to be made open... by rmc on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @03:46AM (#10695417)
The OSM data might look complete, but lots of roads (especially those tagged as residential) are mistagged. cycle.travel is a bicycling routing website (etc), and they ignore "residential" roads in USA that haven't been surveyed.[1] You can help improve the map by fixing them up.

The other missing thing is POIs (Points of Interest). Find an area you're familiar with, and add pubs, shops, cafes, vending machines, bus stops etc.

[1] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2015-June/...

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Re:Australian Geocoded national address data to be made open... by tsmith84 on Monday December 07, 2015 @12:13PM (#10690782)
A great tool for cleaning up the bad TIGER data in OSM is http://osmlab.github.io/to-fix/#/task/tigerdelta
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