Hi, Matt Amos wrote: > exactly - so why say that the nearest road with a particular name is > the addressable road? better to indicate exactly which way is the > addressing element and leave routing for the "via" elements.
No, not "indicate which way is the addressing element" (because the object may even have a street name without the street existing in OSM) - simply put the street name with the object and that's it. In my eyes, the address is a name, not a pointer to an object that has "addressing quality". Bye Frederik _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk