OpenAddress Specification

Assessment

• Open License Yes

• Transferable to Other Jurisdictions No

  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 Yes

  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 Yes

  Standard is posted to GitHub. Have the option to pull requests and post to the GitHub issue tracker

• Extensions No

• Human Readable Yes

  Standard uses clearly universally understood identifiers to label the data

• Machine Readable Yes

  Data is stored in JSON/GeoJSON format

• Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data Yes

  This metric doesn't really apply to this domain, considering that addresses do not change over time

• Metadata Yes

  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