Re: [Talk-us] Address placement (was: Fresno castradal imports)

2012-05-05 Thread Paul Norman
-Original Message- From: Toby Murray [mailto:toby.mur...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 1:18 PM To: OpenStreetMap talk-us list Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Address placement (was: Fresno castradal imports) Moving this to a new thread because there is no address data

Re: [Talk-us] Address placement (was: Fresno castradal imports)

2012-05-04 Thread Toby Murray
Moving this to a new thread because there is no address data in the Fresno import so this discussion is completely irrelevant. I believe NE2 started a thread about this a while ago and there wasn't too much response but since it came up again... On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Paul Johnson

Re: [Talk-us] Address placement (was: Fresno castradal imports)

2012-05-04 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hiya, On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: [..] Though the address belongs to an area, so it would make sense to keep the corresponding boundary. Does it? Certainly for official records such as taxes it does. But this is outside of OSM's domain.

Re: [Talk-us] Address placement (was: Fresno castradal imports)

2012-05-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: In OSM, the use case for address data is geocoding and I would argue that general use geocoding users would rather get a building outline or even a node at the main entrance of a location, not the centroid of the