OpenAdress Specification builds an open resource for geocoding at the global level
- License: BSD 3-clause New or Revised License
- About the Publisher: OpenAddress is an open data initiative that aims to establish an open, world wide resource for address information. Collection was originally compiled by Ian Dees
- Updated by Publisher: 2017-07-11
- Level of Use: 477,280,973 addresses have been processed as of August 30, 2017
- Open License: Yes
- Transferable to other Jurisdictions: The specification has been far reaching and is relatively easy to handle and implement. However, there are legal issues involved with building a database such as this
- Stakeholder Participation: Address points are crowdsourced. Anyone can contribute to their wiki and on GitHub. Code for America has contributed a continuous integration service. This web service helps build participation and automatically updates the system within days
- Consensus-based Governance: Standard is posted to GitHub. Have the option to pull requests and post to the GitHub issue tracker
- Extensions: No information
- Machine Readable: Data is stored in JSON/GeoJSON format
- Human Readable: Standard uses clearly universally understood identifiers to label the data
- Requires Real-Time Data: This metric doesn't really apply to this domain, considering that addresses do not change over time
- Metadata: There is a list of attribute tags (they are optional) that store metadata. These tags include information about the source website, its license, a human readable note, whether the license requires attribution, and email of the data provider
Added to directory: 2017-08-30