Open Source Address Database

“www.openaddresses.org is an Open Source web portal for the management of Open worldwide geolocated postal addresses.”

What does that mean? If you visit the site you can click on a location and input the postal address there. Alternatively, if data are available (error removed; see below), you can programmatically get the postal address returned.

The site only stores the address, no attributes like who lives there, the name of a company, or points of interest. The site works with OpenStreetMap but is a separate database and set of services (geocoding, reverse geocoding).

http://www.openaddresses.org aims to collaborate nicely with http://www.openstreetmap.org “by exchanging data, but since localized addresses are a very specific topic, it is appropriate to have a plattform dedicated only to addresses.”

via GISUser
- press release