Re: [Tagging] reference_point and landmark for addresses

2012-03-21 Thread Pieren
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:52 PM, Felix Delattre li...@delattre.de wrote: My request is that I would like to start a discussion about the the tags landmark [1] and reference_point [2]. No idea about reference_point but a new landmark category is not a good one since we can already use the

Re: [Tagging] reference_point and landmark for addresses

2012-03-21 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 3/20/2012 6:52 PM, Felix Delattre wrote: In Central America describing addresses work differently than in northern countries. As there are often times no street names and people are used to describe the addresses with reference points. Only in some residential areas they use letter and

Re: [Tagging] reference_point and landmark for addresses

2012-03-21 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: I ask because this sort of description is used everywhere. One might say at the end of the road, past Sand Lake Elementary School rather than 8249 Buena Vista Woods Boulevard, but that doesn't make the former any kind

Re: [Tagging] reference_point and landmark for addresses

2012-03-21 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 3/21/2012 9:06 AM, Steve Bennett wrote: The harder question is if you want to try and define actual addresses, like actually putting a unique address description on each dwelling (From the church, 400m south, From the church, 380m south with the blue door). But maybe leave that harder

Re: [Tagging] reference_point and landmark for addresses

2012-03-21 Thread Felix Delattre
On 03/21/2012 07:06 AM, Steve Bennett wrote: I seem to recall having read either the articles Felix posted, or similar ones. The point is, in some countries, these informal descriptions actually *are* genuine addresses. There's no other addressing system in place, so over time they become the

Re: [Tagging] reference_point and landmark for addresses

2012-03-21 Thread Stephen Hope
On 21 March 2012 20:22, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote: And your example about from where the Cinema was before is a bit a problem if we don't see any evidence on the ground (like old signs but afain we don't have tags yet for that). This is exactly the kind of problem we have with