> Ian Dees wrote: >>Hi everyone, >> >>I'm looking at some donated street centerline data that has addressing data >>in the form of "Right/Left From Addr" and "Right/Left To Addr" on each >>street centerline. Is there an accepted way of applying these tags to the >>road ways? It doesn't really make very much sense to create and store a >>separate way just for the addressing information.
It's a fairly well established convention that in OSM it's the houses/plots, not the road centrelines, that are addressed. I'd say it's better to approximate the gap between the road and the houses (10m?) than to just put it on the centreline due to that being easier. This has precedent already - a couple of areas in the US has Karlsruhe schema addressing converted from what is clearly centreline data to spread the addresses out on either side: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=33.676517&lon=-84.012017&zoom=18&layers=B000FTF Your point about 3 time the number of ways becomes increasing relevant with the decreasing quality of the data you are importing - 3 times the headache of fixing dreadful road geometries would be too much! On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) <ajrli...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I'd let someone else work out if they can transcribe the data to another > format once its in OSM, should that be desirable I disagree there. It's much better to put the effort in during the initial import, than to import things badly and try to fix it up later. We've been working on lots of post-import fixups in the last 6 months and it's much harder than everyone assumes. The 4 months to remove TIGER node tags is a case in point - it took less time than that to import them! Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
