Re: [Tagging] Width of shop frontage

2010-11-23 Thread Laurence Penney
On 23 Nov 2010, at 05:47, Steve Bennett wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Laurence Penney l...@lorp.org wrote: I think it would be particularly useful to demonstrate that the whole of a row of shops has been surveyed. After taking account of the units tag, any gaps in a line of nodes

Re: [Tagging] Width of shop frontage

2010-11-23 Thread Laurence Penney
Thanks for the feedback. It doesn't matter if the unit width varies from street to street - it's a folk measure, not a metric measure. The principal benefit is, when the streets are already mapped, to be able to walk down a street typing 100 names into boxes, rather than positioning 100 nodes

Re: [Tagging] Width of shop frontage

2010-11-23 Thread john
How will it handle multiple businesses sharing the same street address? A common pattern in the USA is for all of the offices/stores in a shared building to have the same street address but have different suite numbers (for example, 123 Main Street, suite 101; and 123 Main Street, Suite 102).

Re: [Tagging] Width of shop frontage

2010-11-23 Thread Laurence Penney
Could work really well: fill in the address for the first shop, it gets prefilled (maybe housenumber preinc/decremented) for the next shop. Or mappers can leave addressing to a separate survey. - L On 23 Nov 2010, at 20:08, j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: How will it handle multiple businesses