What's the ultimate goal of address data - geocoding? Networking?
Information for the sake of Information?
I'm all for having it - but there seems to be an unclear goal. To me
it's more important to relate the address point to the street as opposed
to the building though either a relation or a way (for networking).
Right now we've got two types of info - a streetname and an addr:street
(I think) - they should be the same (or at least I would want them the
same).
Randy
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On 11/24/2013 01:53 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Hi
On 24.11.2013 19:26, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
What's the benefit of tying the address to the structure? I've seen this
spoken about quite a bit.
3. Almost always, the points are either wrong or meaningless
I'd like to second that.
If there is a compelling reason to not tie the address to an existing
structure, then so be it - e.g. keep an address node as
building=entrance or something.
If, however, the main reason for not wanting to make the link is "trying
to make the link will show how bad the data really is, and just dumping
address points into the database is good enough for geocoding anyway so
why bother", then this is a clear argument for not importing the data at
all, and keeping in a separate database instead - one that might, like
TIGER address data, be loaded into the database user-side instead of
OSM-side.
Bye
Frederik
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