BEV Address Data Reverse Geocoder

This services converts coordinates into an array of address data sets released by the Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen (BEV) in Austria. You can see the service in action and an API description here.

Data: © Österreichisches Adressregister 2017, N 23806/2017 (Stichtagsdaten vom 02.10.2016)

Example

The request

https://bev-reverse-geocoder.thomaskonrad.at/reverse-geocode/json?lat=48.20808&lon=16.37236&distance=50&limit=3&epsg=4326

gives the following result:

{
   "status":"ok",
   "copyright":"\u00a9 \u00d6sterreichisches Adressregister 2017, N 23806/2017 (Stichtagsdaten vom {{ date }})",
   "address_date": "2016-10-02",
   "results":[
      {
         "address_type:"street",
         "municipality":"Wien",
         "locality": "Innere Stadt",
         "postcode":"1010",
         "street":"Stephansplatz",
         "house_name":"",
         "house_number":"2",
         "lat":48.208111,
         "lon":16.372235,
         "distance":9.909445594,
         "municipality_has_ambiguous_addresses": false
      },
      {
         "address_type:"street",
         "municipality":"Wien",
         "locality": "Innere Stadt",
         "postcode":"1010",
         "street":"Stephansplatz",
         "house_number":"3A",
         "house_name":"",
         "lat":16.372547,
         "lon":48.20809,
         "distance":13.943139329,
         "municipality_has_ambiguous_addresses": false
      },
      {
         "address_type:"street",
         "municipality":"Wien",
         "locality": "Innere Stadt",
         "postcode":"1010",
         "street":"Stock-im-Eisen-Platz",
         "house_number":"1",
         "house_name":"",
         "lat":16.372116,
         "lon":48.208116,
         "distance":18.571775123,
         "municipality_has_ambiguous_addresses": false
      }
   ]
}

Municipalities With Ambiguous Addresses

Some municipalities have a specific combination of postcode and street multiple times in several localities. For example, the street “Feldgasse” in the municipality of Großebersdorf with the postcode 2203 exists four times, namely in the localities Eibesbrunn, Großebersdorf, Manhartsbrunn, and Putzing. If this is the case, we need to set the addr:city tag to the value of the locality and not the municipality so that the address is unique. If there is one such case in a municipality, all addresses in the municipality have the locality in the addr:city tag (such municipalities get the attribute municipality_has_ambiguous_addresses).

Requirements

This Python Django project requires Django 1.10.*.

Importing the Addresses into PostgreSQL

In order to import the data into the database, execute the scripts/create-tables.sql script on your PostgreSQL database instance first. This script deletes all relevant tables (if they exist) and then creates them.

To download and convert the data into a usable format, use the convert-bev-address-data-python script of the user scubbx. Before you run the Python script, install the modules gdal and argparse by issuing the command pip install gdal argparse. The script downloads the data from BEV and converts it into EPSG 4326 by issuing the following command:

python convert-addresses.py -epsg 4326

This outputs a file called bev_addressesEPSG4326.csv. We can now use this file to import the address data into our PostgreSQL database:

cd scripts/
python import-bev-data.py -d gis -f /path/to/bev_addressesEPSG4326.csv -D "2016-10-02"

With the -D parameter you can specify the date the data was released in the format YYYY-MM-DD. This is important for the correct copyright statement when using the data in OpenStreetMap.

Using the Data in OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap has the official permission to use the data. Keep in mind, however, that the data source must be mentioned in the object or changeset source.