Address data for new countries – required formats and structure

[jonni24]

Inoltre da questo link troverai tutte le strade italiane: ANNCSU - Accedi ai servizi di dowload massivo in Open data

[amras]

I’ve been working a lot for the past 10 days. Now, those 1000 vehicles are just waiting for the adress data

Looking forward !

[danielschwarz]

I’ve updated my first post in this topic with a progress table. You can check the address package availability there.

Today, we added the France package from @amras to the stage servers. Please have a quick look. If you approve the integration, we’ll merge it into the regular servers.

Address data for new countries – required formats and structure

Several users from other countries have asked how they can help us build address data for their region. This post describes what kind of data we need, how it should be structured, and in which format it can be provided. It also explains how you can support us by pointing to suitable public data sources that we can review and use. Address Package Integration Status Below is the current status of address-data integration across all supported countries. Regular Servers → Live for all players Sta…

@matty

Wäre es möglich das Paket (auf Südtirol bezogen) trotzdem zu implementieren, damit man zumindest die eigene Leitstelle bauen kann, evtl. würden wir auch in kauf nehmen die POIs neu zuzuordnen…

Wir prüfen, was wir tun können. Leider kann ich bei Teildaten keine Garantie geben.

[amras]

Hello,
I tested the french adress pack today and it seems to be working fine. Data from stage server seems quite old tho so i did a fake dispatch center to test it !

[charlie.1potter]

Hello,

I have just sent your email a geo file including coordinates of the whole of Great Britain (UK).

[danielschwarz]

The French data is now available on the regular servers as well. It may take a few hours before all streets can be selected in the search.

@charlie.1potter

Hello,

I have just sent your email a geo file including coordinates of the whole of Great Britain (UK).

I’ve looked at the UK data. Unfortunately, it only contains IDs with coordinates, but no street names, districts, etc.

[charlie.1potter]

I have just sent you another email including street names and districts.

[jonni24]

Hai per caso avuto modo di visionare il file che ti ho mandato? Italia

[charlie.1potter]

Just wondering if the new email I sent you, with the file is useable?

[danielschwarz]

Thank you! We will check this out asap.

[luisesp01]

@danielschwarz

File format

We can process various data formats, but CSV files are the simplest.
Files should:

• be encoded in UTF-8
• use either comma (,) or semicolon (;) as a delimiter
• include a header row with column names

The CSV format is given as an example. We can also convert other formats (for example Excel, GeoJSON, Shapefile) as long as the contained data matches the structure and quality described here.

Column structure

The following columns form the basis. Required fields are necessary for processing, optional fields improve accuracy but are not mandatory.

Column	Description	Example	Required
Country	Name or ISO code of the country	France	Yes
State	Name of the region or state	Île-de-France	Yes
Commune	Name of the municipality or administrative area	Paris	Yes
City	Name of the city	Paris	Yes
District	Name of the district or subdivision	1er Arrondissement	Yes
Zip	Postal code	75001	Yes
Street	Street name	Rue de Rivoli	Yes
StreetNumberMin	Lowest house number	1	Optional
StreetNumberMax	Highest house number	99	Optional
DistrictLat	Latitude of the district in decimal degrees	48.85661	Yes
DistrictLng	Longitude of the district in decimal degrees	2.35222	Yes
PhonePrefix	Telephone prefix	01	Optional

Example dataset (comma separated):

Country,State,Commune,City,District,Zip,Street,StreetNumberMin,StreetNumberMax,DistrictLat,DistrictLng,PhonePrefix
France,Île-de-France,Paris,Paris,1er Arrondissement,75001,Rue de Rivoli,1,99,48.85661,2.35222,+33 1
Netherlands,Noord-Holland,Amsterdam,Amsterdam,Centrum,1012,Damrak,1,200,52.37312,4.89222,+31 20

Formatting rules

• Text must be UTF-8 encoded
• Decimal separator for coordinates must be a period (.), not a comma
• Postal codes can be alphanumeric, leading zeros must be preserved
• Each combination of country, district, and street should be unique
• Empty values are allowed where specific information (such as house numbers) is not available

Data limitations

• A street can only exist once within the same district (street name must be unique per district)
• A district name and ZIP code combination must be unique within the same city.
• Each address record must belong to an existing district, and each district must belong to a valid city, commune, state, and country (foreign key hierarchy must be valid).
• Latitude and longitude are required for every district and serve as the fallback coordinates when no street-level data is available.
• Streets that cross district or postal boundaries must be created as separate entries for each district or ZIP area.
• Empty or duplicate key values are not allowed in the hierarchy (e.g. missing district references or repeated street names in the same district).

Coordinates and fallback behavior

Normally, address coordinates are resolved dynamically down to street or even house number level.

If this resolution is not possible for a specific area, the system falls back to the coordinates of the corresponding district.

For this reason, the latitude and longitude values for each district must be accurate and represent the geographic center of that district.

If these coordinates are imprecise, locations may be displayed incorrectly. The district coordinates are the lowest fallback level used when no more detailed coordinates are available

good morning.

I think i found a place where all the data from Spain, it is swon at thecountry level it come from the national cartografy sistem, there is althoug a province level map, i Ad the file for the country level + the web, al the data is in SPH and gpkg files.

I can email it if needed.

Centro de Descargas del CNIG (IGN)

if need i can email the documets

[luisesp01]

Spain Data send to kontakt@xenbit.de

[euroo]

I have managed to obtain data for The Netherlands, but the files define Latitudes and Longitudes on a house number-level, and not on a district level. Additionally districts are not defined in the file either unfortunately, though I wonder how important it is for the game or gameplay? (I never refer to the district I live in daily live for example. Manually adding them it going to take a little too much time…)

I have no knowledge or experience dealing with such (huge) datasets, but I’m willing to see if I can get the set to you in something approaching the desired format. Two questions though:

1. Can districts simply be the same as the city?
2. How to deal with the Coordinates given that I do not have them on a district level?

Given my 0 experience or knowledge dealing with these sets I may not be the right person to supply what you’re looking for, but again, I’m willing to see if I can be of help with the sets that I have.
I can supply the raw data for one of the provinces first if you want to have a look at what we’re working with also, if that helps?

Thanks for your response.

[danielschwarz]

Just a brief update to let you know that we haven’t forgotten your efforts in providing the data. We are currently focusing primarily on server stability, which is why we’re unable to load large datasets at the moment.

[danielschwarz]

Some datasets have been compiled. In January, address data will be available for the following countries: the Netherlands, Poland, the Czech Republic, Italy, the United Kingdom, and Spain. The USA will follow shortly thereafter.

[danielschwarz]

News from SIM Dispatcher

New address packages have been added to provide technical support for additional country groups. Outside the DACH region, the following countries are now supported: British Isle (Ireland and Great Britain) Czech Republic Denmark Finland France Italy Luxembourg Netherlands Norway Poland Spain Sweden Please note that native language support for content simulation texts is not yet available for the following countries: Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden. Resources: Regional Avai…

Please ensure that in the administration area of your control center not only the correct package is selected, but that the area is also defined afterward. Address searches are fundamentally filtered to the districts within the defined area.

[danielschwarz]

A GitHub repository has been set up to improve localization for the new regions. At present, it only accepts first and last names, which are used by the simulation. The content will be expanded incrementally to enable broader collaboration.

GitHub - XB-Code/simdispatcher-localization: Localization for region-specific SIM Dispatcher...

[ocrotterdam]

When I try to load the data for the Netherlands, specifically the South Holland region, the entire system freezes and eventually returns a 500 internal server error.

After that, if only part of the data manages to load, the application becomes extremely slow and a large portion of the data is missing. Features that should normally be available simply do not appear, and performance remains very poor.

This issue seems directly related to the size or complexity of the South Holland dataset. Smaller or partial datasets work better, but once this region is involved, stability and completeness break down.

Has anyone experienced similar issues when loading large regional datasets?

[danielschwarz]

Where exactly? On adding areas?