True, but paper maps are usually not printed at a scale where including street numbers are practical.
-- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria -----Original Message----- From: John Smith <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 23:36:58 To: <[email protected]> Cc: OpenStreetMap talk mailing list<[email protected]> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] [Candidacy] AGM Foundation 2010 - Girona On 4 July 2010 23:00, John F. Eldredge <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree about the importance of being able to find a location via its postal > address. One of the most frequent reasons for looking up a location on an > online map is so you can find out where on a long street a particular address > is located. This is one of the chief advantages that an online map has over > a paper map. That's just a rendering issue, paper maps could just as easily print the street numbers, digital map data does have it's unique advantages though, like integration with positioning information. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
