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Match addresses of secondary file to BOSA address file

This script compares the addresses of a secondary csv file to the BOSA csv file of addresses. When an address matches the address ID and coordinates are added to the resulting csv file.

Installation

This script is written in Python 3, see the requirements.txt for the necessary dependencies. They can be installed by executing pip install -r requirements.txt.

Usage

usage: matching.py [-h] [--mode {exact}] [--mapping MAPPING]
                   [--log_name LOG_NAME] [--verbose]
                   input_file_1 input_file_2 output_file

Compare addresses between two csv files.

positional arguments:
  input_file_1         BOSA address file, in csv format
  input_file_2         Address file to compare to BOSA address file, in csv
                       format
  output_file          Name of file to write output to

optional arguments:
  -h, --help           show this help message and exit
  --mode {exact}       How to compare the addresses.
  --mapping MAPPING    Column names to consider in the comparison and how they
                       map to the column names of the BOSA address file. (as a
                       json dict of {comparison_key: bosa_key})
  --log_name LOG_NAME  name of the log file
  --verbose            toggle verbose output

Specifying the mapping

For the matching to work a mapping needs to be provided between the relevant columns of the BOSA address file and the columns of the secondary file. This is done by providing a json dictionary as value for the mapping argument. This dictionary goes from the column name of the secondary file to the column name of the BOSA file. See the README of the conversion script for the column names in the BOSA file and their explanation.

Examples

Match the addresses of a secondary file to the BOSA file.

python matching.py <path to addressfile> <path to secondary file> matching.csv --mapping '{"Straat":"streetname_nl", "Huisnr":"house_number", "Postcode":"postcode"}'