2013/3/2 Paul Norman <[email protected]>: > > My general practice is to try to make imports like normal mapping. For the > cases you've shown so far this would be addresses on the house. > > You haven't shown any rural cases so far, but what you're doing can actually > make it worse. The common rural case is a lot where the building is some > distance from the road. With all geocoding software I've seen, it'll return > an area with what you're proposing doing. This could put you anywhere on the > lot boundary. The entrance=yes node won't be used for routing. If you have > the address on the building, it will put you at the closest mapped road to > the building. This may not be where you want to get routed, but the solution > is to map long rural driveways. If you do what you're proposing with the > import then mapping the driveways won't help this problem. > > The issue of rural addresses and emergency routing has been considered by > Richard Welty for rural New York state. This is also essentially the same as > the choice between representing address points at building entrances, lot > centroids or the road-driveway junction. >
So, would be a better option to set all the address info not in the parcel area, but in the entrance node? > > _______________________________________________ > Imports mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports -- David Marín Carreño <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
