On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 11:40 -0800, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: > On 12 Nov 2009, at 11:29 , Anthony wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Andy Allan <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> It's a fairly well established convention that in OSM it's the > >> houses/plots, not the road centrelines, that are addressed. > > > > But that doesn't always reflect reality. The reality, at least in > > many parts of the world, is that the streets are given blocks of > > potential addresses, and the houses/plots/whatever are given actual > > addresses from those potential address blocks. > > > Don't know any place except in US where this has been done.
So, should we ignore the US for addressing entirely since it is different? Or, should US addressing use a different scheme than the rest of the world? We like being different. -- Dave _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
