On 12/12/08, Matias D'Ambrosio <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday 12 December 2008 10:23:37 Ed Loach wrote: >> I just spotted the following (video) news report on the BBC website: >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7778886.stm >> I don't believe the featured street has been mapped yet >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.37471&lon=-2.3144&zoom=15 >> but it looks like to have addressing tags on it each house would >> need to be added manually.
> The messiness of UK and other European countries when it comes to numbering > is old news, is there anything else on that page? I can't watch the video > (flash video is a broken idea). Obviously, if there is no logical assignment > of numbers, or one that is broken too often, mapping each number makes > sense, > this thread is not about that. The above video offers what I hope is an extreme example of street number craziness in the UK (a street with multiple number "2"s, etc..). I gather there is similar messiness in parts of Asia, like street numbers assigned based on the age of the building... The best arrangement I have seen for street numbers is in Chicago, IL. Streets laid out on a grid pattern. On the north/south and east/west streets there is a number -> distance link. If you go from say 1 North Michigan to 801 North Michigan you will have travelled ~ 1 mile (or if you go from 1 to 501 you will have travelled ~ 1 kilometer). Toronto, Ontario things are almost as good. Almost all north/south street are have the lowest number at the most southern part of the street (Toronto being unable to go any further south due to Lake Ontario). On east/west streets the lowest number is almost always the point closest to Yonge St. (a major north/south street). What Toronto doesn't have but Chicago does is the link between street numbers and distance... > PS: I'm subscribed to this list, no need to CC me. Colin McGregor _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
