Frederik Ramm wrote: >Sent: 25 July 2008 6:13 PM >To: Charlie Echo >Cc: talk >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion > >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. >
+1 to this approach generally. Cheers Andy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
