Hello All, I started large scale collection of house numbers. I'll start with Eastern Pretoria and then expand South West until I reach Randburg. I hope to add on average 150,000 houses per year with an accuracy / completeness of over 50%. It is possible due to 2 pieces of technology:
The first is a little mobile app that allows me to enter house numbers while cycling. A typical 2 digit house number takes only 3 key strokes. http://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/1385/what-is-the-best-mobile-application-for-large-scale-house-number-collection But it's still not fast enough to collect every house number when cycling at 20km/h. So I will need to create interpolation ways. The fastest way of doing this will be with the help of an editor plugin that is yet to be written: 1. You select 2 house number nodes that are on the same side of the same road and activate the tool. 2. The tool generates a way that runs parallel to the road and connects the nodes. 3. The tool sets the addr:interpolation tag to odd or even so that it matches the selected house numbers. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-25.77606&lon=28.28914&zoom=17&layers=M Any volunteers to write this plugin ? -- Game now has an Android phone on special for R999. In all likelihood, they are sold out, but if you are able get one, it offers a cheap entry point into the coming wave of mobile OSM and open source projects. Regards, Nic _______________________________________________ Talk-ZA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za
