Ian Dees
Ian Dees
Thanks for bringing this up, @jwass. In the past, I've resisted including NAD in OpenAddresses for a couple reasons: 1. OpenAddresses prefers data from "primary sources", not aggregations. We want...
OpenAddresses isn't a mailing address database, so we tend to prefer the regular "city" rather than the "postal city". But it is useful information to capture and there are lots...
Yep, generally I agree with this, with the caveat that (2) is split into "first party APIs" and "third party APIs". When a first-party API is available, I would prefer...
I just mean that if a business runs their own location API service and then also sends it to where2getit or something, we should prefer the business's own location API...
> how many brands have multiple apis? I expect it's not a lot Yep, agree.
The Soul Buoy that originally marked Null Island (mentioned in the [Null Island Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island#Soul_buoy)) is no longer there, so there shouldn't be any buoys at 0,0 anymore.
Oh, the change you made also allows 0 lat _or_ lon. Got it.
It's good to see interest in getting this data! There's no existing path for automated uploads of data to OpenAddresses. The goal with OpenAddresses is to index and collate data...
Same thing on this one. Looks like the address regexp is failing to match in some cases.
Checking in here. I think having a preset is pretty important as folks are trying to map these devices and getting confused when they don't see a preset for this...