On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 04:31:57PM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> People do, people are intelligent.
> Software does not.
> 
> Software that searches for addresses needs to know
> how to interpolate (does that city use even/odd or
> left-up/right-down or house-numbers running around
> the block or whatever?),
> that 5A is near 5, all the places where a house cannot
> possible be, ...

The OSR does interpolation already - Probably the are
able to tell you how they did it ...

> Given only a few house-numbers at intersections even
> people get it wrong quite often if they are used to
> other numbering-schemas then the one used there.

I dont like interpolation and the talk-de archives should
show my opposition ...

I am tagging every individual house and when walking around
taking housenumbers it doesnt make a difference.

Flo
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