follow the OSM principle. map what's on the ground no matter where you are
On 12 Nov 2009, at 11:56 , Dave Hansen wrote: > On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 11:40 -0800, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: >> On 12 Nov 2009, at 11:29 , Anthony wrote: >>> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Andy Allan <gravityst...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> It's a fairly well established convention that in OSM it's the >>>> houses/plots, not the road centrelines, that are addressed. >>> >>> But that doesn't always reflect reality. The reality, at least in >>> many parts of the world, is that the streets are given blocks of >>> potential addresses, and the houses/plots/whatever are given actual >>> addresses from those potential address blocks. >>> >> Don't know any place except in US where this has been done. > > So, should we ignore the US for addressing entirely since it is > different? Or, should US addressing use a different scheme than the > rest of the world? We like being different. > > -- Dave > _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us