On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:32 AM, Hillsman, Edward <[email protected]>wrote:
> Anyway If the 2010 has block-face-level address ranges, it would be good > to upload the streets as block edges rather than long ways spanning several > blocks, to make it easier to work with the address ranges. (so the above > example of Hawthorn St would be uploaded as 8 ways, each with its own > address range) And then it would be good to see if we can use the 2010 to > add the address ranges to what has already been edited from the 2007 upload. > If we want OSM to support routing, we’re going to need addresses. A group of > Canadian mappers has just completed uploading address ranges for virtually > all of Canada (discussed on the talk-ca list). > Address ranges in OSM don't live on the road ways themselves, so it won't help to break up the ways into block-segments. Last I checked the address range system used ways that run parallel to the road and an optional relation to connect the two. The wiki seems to be down otherwise I would link you to the page where I got that idea.
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