2012/12/4 Markus Lindholm <[email protected]>: >> > it would make it impossible to render addresses and POIs at the same >> > time. >> this depends entirely on your rendering rules. > How would you devise a rendering rule that makes an intelligible map with > two icons mapped on top of each other on the same spot?
why should the address be an icon? >> > The second problem would be that there would be multiple instances of >> > the >> > same address. >> why is this a problem? "The" address would be the sum of all these >> occurencies. > If you want to calculate a route to or from an address it is preferable that > there's just one instance. you could calculate the centre of all equal address-points, or just take the first, it wouldn't make any practical difference. Anyway: it is preferable not to use this approach, I agree that tagging a polygon is the better way if you know the extension of an address. cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
