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Finding data on US street names

Started 3 years ago by enotal / 3 posts

  1. enotal
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    I'm trying to find a complete list of all the street names in the US. All I need is the street name and the state (but a separate record for each occurrence of the name in that state). Ideally I would also have the county or ZIP for each. I tried getting it with OpenStreetMap but their files are HUGE (because they include everything else) and I couldn't get them to convert to a usable format anyway.

    Any ideas where I can pull this data? The census is one idea but I'm unsure how to get at it...

  2. nathany
    FlowingData Editor
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Take a look at Ben Fry's All Streets: http://benfry.com/writing/archives/54

  3. Dean
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    You want to go get the TigerLine from the USGS - these have all that information - it is encoded but as a text flat file that you will have to pick apart. The dataset is huge, considering that it does have every street and the lat/lon of all the streets and the curves but the data is broken down into County/State chunks and then by data type...

    http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/


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