On Jun 9, 2011, at 12:34 AM, Steve Coast wrote: > > > On 6/8/2011 12:43 PM, Alan Mintz wrote: >> Is that/will that not be a popular use for OSM? It does not make walking >> directions impossible - just requires the addition of the driveway to the >> map. OTOH, putting the pin on the front door of a building inside a large >> parcel may well leave a driver lost and quite a distance from where he needs >> to be. > > Ah I see. Well the question is really whether the centroid is better than the > front door. My argument would be no, the centroid is usually in a pretty > random place. The front door with some clever processing will get you the > house and also the driveway shapes. > > Steve
I think in the majority of cases the front door is going to be the best option. Yes there are exceptions to this, but I would hope that people would start adding long driveways to those exceptions as they were improving the map. -Kate > >> >> >>> On 6/7/2011 3:28 PM, Alan Mintz wrote: >>>> "The site allows you to drag a pin from where we think an address >>>> currently is to the front door of the property" >>>> >>>> Is that really where we want the pin to be for driving directions? I've >>>> mostly tended to either putting the address info on a complete landuse >>>> polygon, or if a point, placing it on the driveway, just off the street to >>>> which it connects. I swear I read this somewhere as standard practice, and >>>> it makes sense from a navigation standpoint, particularly for rural >>>> parcels, where a "driveway" can be hundreds of meters long and not mapped. >>>> >>>> San Diego County, CA, USA has a bunch of address data from a SanGIS import. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Alan Mintz <[email protected]> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Talk-us mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Talk-us mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >> >> -- >> Alan Mintz <[email protected]> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-us mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >> > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
