Brief
A global collection of address, cadastral parcel, building footprint and street centerline data sources, open and free to use. Join, download and contribute. We're just getting started.
This repository is a collection of references to address, cadastral parcel, building footprint and street centerline data sources.
Contributing addresses
- Open an issue and give information about where to find more address data. Be sure to include a link to the data and a description of the coverage area for the data.
- You can also create a pull request to the sources directory.
- More details in CONTRIBUTING.md.
Developer documentation
For an explanation of how the pipeline works end-to-end — including how to test sources locally, how pull request CI works, and how the weekly batch run is structured — see DEVELOPMENT.md.
Why collect addresses?
Street address data is essential infrastructure. Street names, house numbers, and post codes combined with geographic coordinates connects digital to physical places. Free and open addresses are rocket fuel for civic and commercial innovation.
Contributors
Code Contributors
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Individuals
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License
The data produced by the OpenAddresses processing pipeline (available on batch.openaddresses.io) is not relicensed from the original sources. Individual sources will have their own licenses. The OpenAddresses team does its best to summarize the source licenses in the source JSON for each source. For example, the source JSON for the County of San Francisco contains a link to the County of San Francisco's open data license.
The source JSON in this repo (in the sources/ directory) is licensed under the CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication as described in the license file there. The rest of the repository is licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License.
