2, 4, 6, 8, Here's How we Interpolate

An exploration of how the open-source Pelias geocoder uses address interpolation to make the most of open data.

Presented at GeoDC, July 11th, 2018

Version with speaker notes here: https://speakerdeck.com/orangejulius/2-4-6-8-heres-how-we-interpolate-with-speaker-notes

Transcript

1. 2, 4, 6, 8 Here’s how we Interpolate
2. Julian Simioni Cleared for Takeoff
 @juliansimioni
5. github.com/pelias/pelias/
6. Pelias addresses
7. There are lots of addresses https://pelias-dashboard.geocode.earth
8. https://pelias.github.io/scripts-geocoding-coverage/highlights.html
13. Address Ranges https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/data/tiger/tgrshp2015/TGRSHP2015_TechDoc.pdf
17. https://github.com/pelias/interpolation
23. Autocomplete
24. SPEED Right now building the interpolation dataset takes 16 days :(
26. What YOU Can Do • Add streets to OSM • Add street names to existing streets • Add addresses to existing OSM venues • Add ZIP CODES!! (see github.com/iandees/wtf-zipcodes for why) • Extra fancy: add address ranges to streets
29. Thank You! twitter.com/juliansimioni