Re: [Talk-ca] Advice on Addressing

2013-05-27 Thread Andrew Buck
Individual buildings is definitely preferable to interpolation ways. For adding address coverage in Fargo, ND, I used the 'audio mapping' technique detailed on the wiki while riding my bike up one sidewalk and then down the other on each street. It goes very fast and works very well. I also

Re: [Talk-ca] Advice on Addressing

2013-05-27 Thread Stewart Russell
I was pretty disappointed with the results I got from (mapquest's) Nominatim when I tried to geocode Doors Open Toronto's data. I found about a third of the results were clearly wrong, and haven't eyeballed the rest on a map to see how far off they are. Toronto's got pretty good address range

Re: [Talk-ca] Advice on Addressing

2013-05-27 Thread Paul Norman
] Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 6:48 AM To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-ca] Advice on Addressing Hello, With respect to Nominatim and OSM routing applications is there are better way to add address data to OSM? I have started adding some address data in my

Re: [Talk-ca] Advice on Addressing

2013-05-27 Thread Harald Kliems
Much has already been said. A good tool to collect housenumbers on an Android phone is keypadmapper: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/KeypadMapper I've mostly mapped interpolation lines in my Montreal neighborhood. The problem here is that each apartment has an individual housenumber, meaning