2010/7/6 Andy Allan <[email protected]> > 2010/7/2 Nicolás Lichtmaier <[email protected]>: > > Hi! I have set up a local gazetteer instalation. I've downloaded a subset > of > > OpenStreetMap: Chicago. > > > > However, the results so far are very disappointint. I've been learning > about > > OpenStreet map and found that the coverage for resolving house numbers is > > nearly non-existing! The number of "ways" tagged with addr:interpolation > is > > just 14 in all Chicago, and the number of addr:housenumber is 71! Am I > doing > > something wrong? Is it posible to expect gazetteer to resolve addresses > in > > cities? > > > > Do anyone know other alternatives? > > I don't know Chicago specifically, but I would expect there to be very > little addressing data in OpenStreetMap for there. If you start adding > some addressing to OpenStreetMap (say, for your local neighborhood), > then you'll see things start improving. After that, you'll need to get > lots of mappers active across the city to get a good level of > addressing data. > > It's not really possible to expect the gazatteer to resolve the > addresses without the information being put into OpenStreetMap, and in > most areas there is fairly patchy coverage. >
Oh, I see... It sounds I'm out of luck then with this. =( I had thought gazetteer main purpose was this, so I assume it would be possible... Thanks! Nicolás.-
_______________________________________________ Geocoding mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/geocoding
