It would be nice to know how many of the buildings and house numbers in OSM were imported versus surveyed / drawn by hand. I have a bad feeling about how feasible it is to crowd surf house numbers.
regards m On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com > wrote: > > 2014-10-22 12:15 GMT+02:00 Steve Coast <st...@asklater.com>: > >> Together, we could do this in 6-12 months and finish addressing in 1-3 >> years. At that point we wouldn’t have just made the world slightly better, >> we would have put a big dent in the universe. Nobody would use a closed map >> ever again, and it would be people like you that made it happen. >> > > > > I agree with you that addressing is very important for a lot of commercial > (and non-commercial) map users. What I don't understand is how a paid board > would help us map more addresses. Unfortunately mapping addresses is > typically less fun than going to the video arcade. Looking at the current > figures we are not doing too bad. Currently there are 130 Million buildings > in OSM and 46 Million housenumbers. I don't know exactly how many buildings > there are in the world, and how many of them don't have addresses, but I > guess it will be at least 1 Billion addresses in the world, probably more. > According to the stats page we have roughly 25.000 active contributors a > month ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Stats#Contributor_Stats ). To > get an address on all currently mapped buildings in three years time, (84M > to go), every active contributor would have to add 93 addresses a month - > constantly. To get 1 Billion addresses mapped by 25.000 contributors in 3 > yrs, it would be 1111 housenumbers a month per active contributor. Are we > planning to pay the mappers as well? The only solution seems to get more > contributors mapping, and have them insert addresses. > > cheers, > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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