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?

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