Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-22 Thread Roy Wallace
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Alan Mintz wrote: > At 2009-12-22 11:59, Roy Wallace wrote: >>I think Karlsruhe is still the best approach - e.g. even if you have >>4, 6, 12, 18, 50, an even interpolation way from 4 to 50 is the best >>you can do short of mapping each address individually. > > Ex

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-22 Thread Tobias Knerr
Alan Mintz wrote: > At 2009-12-22 11:59, Roy Wallace wrote: >> I think Karlsruhe is still the best approach - e.g. even if you have >> 4, 6, 12, 18, 50, an even interpolation way from 4 to 50 is the best >> you can do short of mapping each address individually. > > Except for this pesky line in th

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-22 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Alan Mintz > wrote: > At 2009-12-22 11:59, Roy Wallace wrote: > >I think Karlsruhe is still the best approach - e.g. even if you have > >4, 6, 12, 18, 50, an even interpolation way from 4 to 50 is the best > >you can do short of mapping each address individually.

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-22 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2009-12-22 11:59, Roy Wallace wrote: >I think Karlsruhe is still the best approach - e.g. even if you have >4, 6, 12, 18, 50, an even interpolation way from 4 to 50 is the best >you can do short of mapping each address individually. Except for this pesky line in the wiki page, which is what imp

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-22 Thread Roy Wallace
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Alan Mintz wrote: > >> The current scheme with >>drawing a way to interpolate is too much work and cumbersome, for me >>anyways. > > I agree it's cumbersome. The interval is not definite - only that it be at > least 2 because of the spec of being odd on the north/

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-22 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2009-12-22 02:07, Erik Johansson wrote: >On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Alan Mintz > wrote: > > At 2009-12-21 11:01, Roy Wallace wrote: > >>... If you don't know where the other end of the > >>street is, you can't use an addr:interpolation way, so it seems to me > >>that you are just tagging

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-22 Thread Erik Johansson
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Alan Mintz wrote: > At 2009-12-21 11:01, Roy Wallace wrote: >>... If you don't know where the other end of the >>street is, you can't use an addr:interpolation way, so it seems to me >>that you are just tagging a sign. >> >>Is there already a tagging scheme for th

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-21 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2009-12-21 11:01, Roy Wallace wrote: >... If you don't know where the other end of the >street is, you can't use an addr:interpolation way, so it seems to me >that you are just tagging a sign. > >Is there already a tagging scheme for this? If not, propose one - but >(as others have said) don't u

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-21 Thread Roy Wallace
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Erik Johansson wrote: > > Does anyone have any improvements to make this scheme better? If you know where the other end of the street is, use an addr:interpolation way, in accordance with the wiki. I think your case was essentially why addr:interpolation was esta

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-21 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/12/21 Erik Johansson > But it is retrieved in the only way I care about namely the rendered > map. It could be retrieved by geocoders as well, with small changes, > it was this change I wanted help with. Note, place=locality seems even > better after what you said, or do you have a better ta

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-21 Thread Erik Johansson
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2009/12/21 Erik Johansson >> >> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Frederik Ramm >> wrote: >> > Then why don't you use "place=locality, name=45-29" if that's all you >> > want. >> >> Thanks, that's a good idea (if it works), > > what do

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-21 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/12/21 Erik Johansson > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Frederik Ramm > wrote: > > Then why don't you use "place=locality, name=45-29" if that's all you > want. > > Thanks, that's a good idea (if it works), what do you mean by: if it works? All alternative ways to the well established add

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-21 Thread Tobias Knerr
Erik Johansson wrote: > Does anyone have any improvements to make this scheme better? Yes: Choose key names for your scheme that aren't already in use and are clearly different from existing keys. That is, they shouldn't start with "addr:" - that prefix is commonly used for tagging addresses in a

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-21 Thread Erik Johansson
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 5:05 PM, David Earl wrote: > On 21/12/2009 15:39, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: >> are you aware of JOSM-Presets and autocompletion? If you work in JOSM >> and use the presets, the street, city and country-tags will be >> autocompleted. > > Furthermore if you use JOSM's addres

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-21 Thread Erik Johansson
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > Erik Johansson wrote: >> 1. I use addr:housenumbers, just to get numbers on the map. Even >> though I don't follow the spec. > > Then why don't you use "place=locality, name=45-29" if that's all you want. Thanks, that's a good idea (

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-21 Thread David Earl
On 21/12/2009 15:39, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > are you aware of JOSM-Presets and autocompletion? If you work in JOSM > and use the presets, the street, city and country-tags will be > autocompleted. Furthermore if you use JOSM's addressing plugin, you don't have to type the street name at all

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-21 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/12/21 Erik Johansson > Hi > > I've slowly started using addr:housenumbers, I'm not really interested > in doing it according to the way the addr:* scheme work atm though.. > Because of the amount of work to enter data in that scheme. are you aware of JOSM-Presets and autocompletion? If yo

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Erik Johansson wrote: > 1. I use addr:housenumbers, just to get numbers on the map. Even > though I don't follow the spec. Then why don't you use "place=locality, name=45-29" if that's all you want. > Does anyone have any improvements to make this scheme better? Yes, use the same scheme tha

[Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-21 Thread Erik Johansson
Hi I've slowly started using addr:housenumbers, I'm not really interested in doing it according to the way the addr:* scheme work atm though.. Because of the amount of work to enter data in that scheme. Here are the things that I believe is different from the addr:* scheme.. 1. I use addr:housen