With the current scheme how would one numbering blocks of flats? there is no explicit allowance in the current scheme as far as i can see.
On 7/28/08, Karl Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Charlie Echo > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> If things are clear, and if there is a consensus about using this >> Karlsruhe >> schema, let's have a vote on it. >> >> This will make things easier: we would then have a clean situation. This >> would enable people to enter the data. >> We may also adapt the tools then, e.g. create a function in JOSM that >> "explodes" a way by creating parallel ways (for each continuous segment) >> with pre-filled tags (street names, and so on) so that entering data is >> easy >> enough. >> >> Charlie Echo >> >> > The Karlsruhe schema is fine for just showing numbers on a map, but I don't > like it because it's not topological and therefore virtually impossible to > use for other purposes. This is because the associated way is not directly > encoded in the schema--it has to be derived by another means. That's just a > whole lot more work for data consumers that are only trying to locate a > street address a relative distance along a way (e.g., all current GPS > navigation systems). Consider this use case: Given a street, I'd have to > look through NN million nodes to find the closest ones (say within some > radius, which may actually miss some!), and then for each of those nodes, > check against MM million ways to make sure they aren't actually closer to > another street. That's madness! A simple relation could tell you node X in > way Y has the address number Z. (Obviously need a little more detail such as > odd/even schemes to fully support interpolation). > > Karl > -- Sent from Google Mail for mobile | mobile.google.com _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
