Hi, > I added one suggestion to the "House Numbers" page. It's the eighth one. > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/House_numbers
I find that very confusing. I'm using the "Karlsruhe Schema" http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/House_numbers and if you want to start mapping house numbers withtout endless discussions, I recommend you just do the same. The house numbers will even show up on Osmarender z17, albeit in a sort of "debug" view which will have to be improved. The Karlsruhe Schema has multiple facets. We assume that in the long run (long! run!) we will have all building outlines in our database anyway, so each building will simply be tagged with its house number and that's that. Until that happens, the Karlsruhe schema lets you place individual nodes for individual house numbers, or use interpolation between nodes placed at street corners. These interpolation rules are explicitly modeled as a new way connecting the nodes, which may look a but unusual at first but (a) it's going to go away once editors learn how to "dim" these lines and (b) it's going to go away once we have each house separate. Your suggestion of using "house_number:W_L" and such is asking for trouble IMHO. > - it will save a lot of time: entering street names and THEN numbers doubles > the number of visits, and so on. This is not true, at least not generally. The initial mapping is often done by car or bike where you cannot be expected to record house numbers, even if you only want to record those at an intersection. House numbers typically require visiting the area on foot or at least, if by bike, then with a lot of extra time. Also, house numbers may be entered by people who live in the area and don't even have a GPS. So no need to rush. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
