Good luck on sorting it out! We have some older building imports that suffer offsets and I’ve been tidying up bits as I move through the map.

Thanks for putting in so much effort! What a great set of stuff to get onto the map.

Thanks for adding these details!

@MapAwayThePain Thanks for the kind words. I am glad folks find this helpful! Let me know if you have issues/concerns/successes. I love hearing about that stuff.

@citzenprime, great question. Sorry for missing it months ago! My understanding is that the line between “import” and not is whether you have “reviewed each element”. It turns out that you can do a pretty quick scan over a reasonable dataset and “review” things for sanity. This one uses the National Address Database layer which is documented and well understood. If you are bringing another dataset, say one from your local county, I do suggest discussing it with folks (Discord, community forum, OSM US Slack etc) just to make sure it’s tidied up and converted to a reasonable OSM format.

@catsparrow, sorry for the delay in my reply. There’s a setting you can adjust to increase the selection limit. Edit > Preferences > Advanced Preferences > “MapWithAI.maximumselection”. You can set that up to 1000, or set it to 0 to say “no maximum”.

It’s been a while since I have fiddled with it. It may reject setting it to zero in the UI. If that’s the case you can set it in saved JOSM preferences file that lives next to your JOSM install.

In that case I would say the street’s name is “North Octavia Avenue”. Directional prefixes are often omited from older or cheaper street signage but now we have a datapoint that show what the “real” full name of the roadway is meant to be. OSM isn’t constrained by signage budgets (and the inclusion doesn’t, generally, create confusion) so we can safely include the full name.

Sometimes the disagreement is more stark and you’ll need a tiebreaker datapoint such as street level imagery or county roadway dataset. If it’s a complete mess (ex: disagreement between TIGER, road signage, imported addresses) I find it extremely useful to mail the local GIS or transport folks and explain that there’s a bit of a mess that needs working out. I’ve did this a few times during the Phoenix area address import.. mostly when a roadway had signs on each end that meaningfully disagreed about the name.

This is lovely. Cheers to 10,000 more!

Very cool!! I look forward to whatever fun things you come up with next.

Lovely! Keep it up and thank for sharing.