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BeSt

Various tools to use and convert the BeST streets and addresses open data

Table of contents

Overview

Components overview

Scripts

This repository contains a collection of scripts to perform various operations with the BeST streets and addresses open data.

Downloader

The download script downloads the dataset and unzips it in the specified directory.

View the documentation

Converter

The convert script converts the xml files in the dataset to one big csv file.

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Filter

The filter script can filter the csv file on postcode and bounding box and can output the result in various formats

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Matching

The matching script can match the addresses of one file to the addresses of another file and will fill in the official address id and GPS coordinates

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Count

The Count scripts can count the occurences of streetnames in the file

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Compare

The compare script compares the streetnames of two groups of postal codes and return the common ones.

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Docker

Openaddresses

Contains the metadata for our upload to the openaddresses.io global open address repository, and some more information on the process.

View the documentation.

Pelias

Contains information on how to set up a pelias geocoding service that uses the BeSt data.

View the documentation

Marketing

A collection of marketing and communication assets are prepared for the promotion of the dataset and other similar datasets in the future.

They can be found here

Notebooks

Using the csv data a few notebooks were created using the data in fun and interesting ways.

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Interactive map

An interactive map visualization off all addresses in Belgium can be found here

Along with the information on how to run it.