[freyfogle]

Hi,

thanks for the kind words.

You are right that a geocoder is only as good as the data available to it. Happily OSM is great for many use cases and getting better literally every day.

Whether it is good enough now for your use case will depend ... on your use case. Not everyone needs comprehensive house numbering in Getafe. Until the local OSM community decides to add those numbers we do the best we can for the use cases where open data is a viable option today. As an aside, I am not sure the catastro qualifies as "open" data (even if it may be public), and even if so, as you correctly note, someone with local familiarity for all the abbreviations and common usages will need to help with adding it. Local knowledge is key.

re: "Place de Gaulle", of the top of my head I couldn't say, I would have to a detailed look. It's complicated, which is what makes geo fun.

[Uberphallus]

Catastro doesn't have a clear license, but the spirit is certainly open[0]:

"It's worth noting the mass download service of cadastral information, available since 2011, that makes it free for companies and individuals said information, including the possibility of it being reused."

Translation mine.

I'd love to hear about the origins of such mysterious Ontario spot!

[0] http://www.catastro.minhap.gob.es/esp/usos_utilidades.asp

[freyfogle]

Without having looked in detail I would guess this is a situation where no license just causes confusion. Now it's unclear what is allowed. Ideally they would be explicit about what is allowed. Anyway, if it is allowed, using that data is a decision for the local OSM community. If you live there or have a local connection, please get involved, or just with mapping generally. It's good fun. Here's a tutorial of how to add house numbers to OSM, really it is pretty simple:

https://opencagedata.com/tutorials/adding-an-address-to-open...

re: Ontario, I will eventually have a look, but the list of projects is long and priority goes to bugs reported by customers.