openaddresses/openaddresses — pull request #764 by sbma44 (2014-12-12 19:58:10+00:00)
Title: Poland

This PR adds addresses for Poland's 16 vovoideships. This is a slightly nonstandard import for a few reasons:

- It relies on [new `conform` functionality to support GML](https://github.com/openaddresses/openaddresses-conform/pull/36) (not so nonstandard for my PRs :sweat_smile: )
- The source zipfile has serious character encoding issues in its filenames--some layer of URL encoding on top of an unspecified character encoding, except with something else going on, too. It's bad enough that I ultimately decided it could not be fixed in an automated way. This is a known defect in the zip format. I wound up decompressing, researching, renaming and recompressing the files. I don't believe that their contents are affected, only the filenames.
- Many of the records do not have a street field specified (`ULC_NAZWA`) -- it's blank. This appears to be due to addressing for rural properties relying upon village names (`MJS_NAZWA`). For this reason I have merged the two fields. This is nonstandard for OpenAddresses, but I think it's an approach that will work correctly in many geocoding applications. If not, we'll need to talk about changes to the output data scheme.