On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Ben Last <[email protected]> wrote: > There's no convenient way. We could bounce a user off to the OSM site to > register, but this is complex because they then need to confirm an email, > and after the signup there (appears to be) no convenient way to bring them > back to our site. We'd then have to ask them to enter their OSM username and > password since we can't easily tell whether they are registered/logged in > with OSM (the OSM login cookies are for the openstreetmap.org domain). In > short, the OSM site doesn't appear to have been designed with the intention > of supporting login integration with external services. > There are ways around many of the issues, but we'd end up doing a fair > amount of work to integrate closely with an external site that may then > change the way it works, breaking the flow for our users.
Oops, could have been clearer. By "integration", I meant asking the OSM developers to make some changes to make it easier, too. But yeah, if not possible, not possible. > Yep; getting numbers for corners of blocks is a pretty effective way to > boost geocoding accuracy with minimal data. Though it works better in a > US-style block system than in, say, rural areas of the UK :) Some parts of the US are pretty crazy too. My favourite though is a scheme I saw in Dallas (and I'm sure exists elsewhere) where the numbers are independent of the street, and uniquely identify a house within some region. So a tiny cul-de-sac can have street numbers in the thousands, and an address can effectively be "41029 Dallas". > Splitting streets may fall into the area where the edit gets more complex > than we want to support (at least for the first release). But yes, there is > an issue there, depending on how farsighted the person was who originally > traced the street :) Speaking as a tracer, it's very hard to guess where to break a street. You don't want to break them too short either, because then people down the track are more likely to only label half the street... Steve _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
