Augusta county, Virginia, Address and Building import

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Augusta county, Virginia, Address and Building Import is an import of Virginia Address Points and Microsoft/BuildingFootprints, covering Augusta County, Virginia. Initial address import was completed between 2022-05-18 and 2022-11-26. Buildings are pending, and will likely be a long term project. Addresses will periodically receive updates.

Goals

Realizing the necessity of accurate and complete map data, the user of this account desires to improve OSM in Augusta county by maintaining up to date address points, driveways, & routes; so that OSM can be counted on as a dependable source of routing for everyone, specifically first responders.

Schedule

Background

Initial import of address points was performed between 2022 May 18 and 2022 Nov 26. Prior to this, very few addresses existed within Augusta county. Imports conflated the new address points with existing POIs and buildings. (Certainly there were mistakes and omissions with this.) Removed (and still removing) tiger:reviewed=no and access=private from most driveways as they are reviewed. My policy for access=private is to remove it for any driveway that provides access from a highway to apparent residence. If the driveway has two intersections with a highway which could provide a 'shortcut', i.e. a parcel with road frontage on multiple highways may have driveway to both, the access=private is left in place or added.

Since the intention is to be capable of provided accurate address data to first responders, error on the side of leaving an address point rather than removing it, is given when there is uncertainty if an addressable object exists on-the-ground.

Updates

New address points are released quarterly. The plan is to periodically conflate the new data points with the map to keep it current. The initial import did not include apartment and suite data. Updates will include this data.

Import Data

Objectives

• Keep addresses up to date by periodic imports with new datasets
• Add buildings and driveways
• Road names, route numbers and relations
• Hydrography (possibly will set up another import page)

Virginia Address Points: https://hub.arcgis.com/datasets/VGIN::virginia-address-points/about
Type of license: Public Domain

Microsoft/BuildingFootprints: https://github.com/microsoft/USBuildingFootprints
Type of license: Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL)
License: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/

Bing Building wiki

Import Type

One Time Import. Initial import complete, plan to continue imports periodically indefinitely as new address point data is released.

Periodic Updates

Post Code	City	Date of latest update	Dataset date	Changeset
24486	Weyers Cave	2023-02-22	2022-Q4	132889688
24401	Staunton	2023-02-22	2022-Q4	132985056
22812	Bridgewater
24430	Craigsville
24467	Mount Sidney
22841	Mount Crawford
22843	Mount Solon
22920	Afton
22939	Fishersville	2023-02-24	2022-Q4	132989512
22952	Lyndhurst
22967	Roseland
22980	Waynesboro
24411	Augusta Springs
24421	Churchville	2023-02-24	2022-Q4	132982366
24431	Crimora
24432	Deerfield
24437	Fort Defiance
24439	Goshen
24440	Greenville
24441	Grottoes
24459	Middlebrook
24472	Raphine
24476	Steeles Tavern
24477	Stuarts Draft
24479	Swoope
24482	Verona
24483	Vesuvius
24485	West Augusta

Status

Post Code	City	County	Address Status	Addresses Changesets	Building Status	Notes
22812	Bridgewater	Augusta	Y	121170225 2022-05-19		Addresses within Augusta only.
24430	Craigsville	Augusta	Y	120985385, 120988434, 120906839, 120137316, 120810202, 120980247, 121339910	Y	Fixed erroneous tags on my first imports.
24467	Mount Sidney	Augusta	Y	120644393, 120906839		Fixed erroneous tags on my first imports.
24486	Weyers Cave	Augusta	Y	120913096, 120908044, 120905743, 120815870, 120327133	Y	Fixed erroneous tags on my first imports.
22841	Mount Crawford	Rockingham	Y	121523752 2022-05-26
22843	Mount Solon	Augusta	Y	121302269 2022-05-22	N	Added many missing small roads, fixed road spelling. This Area needs a lot of road classification work.
22920	Afton	Augusta	Y	125584828 2022-08-30		Limited my import to only the Afton addresses within Augusta County. Pre-existing buildings were combined with addresses.
22939	Fishersville	Augusta	Y	127691878, 127696114, 128052599, 128183206, 128184076, 128187482	N	Addresses split into 6 changesets of about 500 each.
22952	Lyndhurst	Augusta	Y	126871683 2022-10-01	N	Added many small roads that were non-existent, or tagged as tracks with no name.
22967	Roseland	Augusta	Y	128191998	N	Only added those addresses within Augusta County.
24401	Staunton	Augusta	Y	[128574005 2022-11-06], [128747355 2022-11-10], [128900553, 128903925, 128906204 2022-11-14]	N	6200 addresses (Not Including Staunton City). Split into 5 changesets. This area could use a lot of road classification work and driveway verification.
22980	Waynesboro	Augusta	Y	[129093616, 129096863, 129102924, 129105087 2022-11-18], [129251480, 129252539, 129253943 2022-11-22], [129408495, 129411406 2022-11-26]	N	4800 addresses within Augusta county after removing duplicates with apartment numbers. Split into 9 changesets.
24411	Augusta Springs	Augusta	Y	Complete	Y	Post Office is Sole building with this addr:city
24421	Churchville	Augusta	Y	125287586 2022-08-23
24431	Crimora	Augusta	Y	124012750 2022-07-24	N
24432	Deerfield	Augusta	Y	124580282 2022-08-06		Addresses within Augusta only.
24437	Fort Defiance	Augusta	Y	123251745 2022-07-05	N	This area needs road reclassification (Tertiary to residential)
24439	Goshen	Augusta	Y	121295116 2022-05-21	Y	Goshen addresses within Augusta County.
24439	Goshen	Rockbridge	Y	121733779 2022-05-30		Goshen Addresses within Rockbridge County.
24440	Greenville	Augusta	Y	126059848 2022-09-11	N
24441	Grottoes	Augusta	Y	123255988		Only imported addresses within Augusta County.
24459	Middlebrook	Augusta	Y	125905025 2022-09-07	N
24472	Raphine	Augusta	Y	128410248	N	474 Addresses in Augusta County
24476	Steeles Tavern	Augusta, Rockbridge	Y	128193422	N	159 addresses counting both Augusta and Rockbridge
24477	Stuarts Draft	Augusta	Y	#1:122115666, #2:122131948, #3:122137299, #4:123147234, #5:123149065, #6:123150456, #7:123155004, #8:123737311, #9:123770032, 10#: 123771527	N	5,049 total address points. Split into 10 changesets. On changeset 3, I had many validation errors in JOSM around Indian Ridge Road and Wilda Road. I added a fixme=* tag, and will take a look when I have more time.
24479	Swoope	Augusta	Y	121336340 2022-05-22
24482	Verona	Augusta	Y	[126234658, 126240865 2022-09-15], [126301216, 126302898 2022-09-17]	N	Split into four changesets.
24483	Vesuvius	Augusta	Y	128192865	N	17 addresses in within Augusta County.
24485	West Augusta	Augusta	Y	125488473 2022-08-28	N

Data Preparation

Tagging Plans

Where duplicate addresses exist with different unit numbers, only one instance was kept. That is, no unit numbers were imported.

Tag	Example Data
addr:housenumber	68
addr:street	West Railroad Avenue
addr:unit	A, 101, etc
addr:unit:label	Apartment, Suite
addr:city	Craigsville
addr:state	VA
addr:postcode	24430
addr:county	Not used in updates

Address points will be tagged source=VGIN Virginia Address Points I now have a dedicated user account for the import, and will not be tagging individual nodes, as instructed on the Import/Guidelines page.

Data formatting

Downloaded Virginia Address points as SHP. Using QGIS, split vector layer by locality field (county), then split by zip code. They were split by county first to properly divide those zip codes that have the county line dissect them. Address points were exported from the shapefile to CSV, then used Excel to map the tags and format the values. Imported to OSM using JOSM. Used the Conflation plugin to add the points to map, then the Review plugin to navigate and view each point where it was combined with existing POI or building as needed.

Address Coordinates are using EPSG:3968

Buildings are imported using RapID. (See Augusta county in RapID)

Data Merge Workflow

Conflation

Existing addresses/buildings will be conflated with the import, so as to not create duplicates.

Discussion

As ongoing discussion happens that pertains to this import, I may try to post some links here. I can be contacted on Slack. I am using my OSM username, pmfox, for the import. As of 2022-05-21, all Imports will be done with the dedicated user Augusta Co VA Address and Building import.

• Slack discussion on road classifications
• Slack on source tagging
• Slack on conflation

QA

Manual QA by JOSM review plugin.

See also

The email to the Imports-us mailing list was sent on 2022-05-15 and can be found in the archives of the import-us mailing list at [1] An additional email was sent to the imports mail list on 2022-05-16 [2].