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Street addresses don't work?
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this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2024
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Why are people manually inputting addresses instead of periodically updating with something like the national-address-database.
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Because not everyone lives somewhere where open data exists. Even that map of a single country shows that
~40%(?) of the country is missing the relevant data.
And the license maybe not compatible in some states:
People are working on it https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/United_States_Addresses
In some places that can be, has been, or is done, in others not, for various reasons including license compatibility, data quality, maintainability (how do you reliably detect whether a data point is already there), etc. There is plenty of information about imports and other automated edits and the rules surrounding them on the OSM wiki.