Re: [Talk-us] Address improvement through imports?
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:36 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: Anthony, my recollection is you're banned from editing our map, so don't worry about how we split or don't split the roads. I still edit the map. I am not banned. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Address improvement through imports?
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Michal Migurski m...@stamen.com wrote: I'm not a fan of splitting ways Maybe we should remove the ability from the editors, then. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
[Talk-us] OSM US General Meeting
Hi all, The departing and newly-elected OpenStreetMap US board members invite you to a general meeting of the OpenStreetMap US organization next week Thursday, *November 10 at 8pm* Eastern [0]. You can join us by dialing * 610.214.* and entering conference code *430972* followed by the pound symbol (#). Looking forward to hearing from you, Ian PS: You may receive this e-mail more than once if you are both a paid OSM US member and a member of the talk-us mailing list. [0] http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2003T2000p1=43 ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Address improvement through imports?
On 11/03/2011 06:09 PM, Steven Johnson wrote: Up to now, we've been talking largely about addresses as point features. However, one thing I think would be good to have is block ranges on streets. What I mean is a tag that indicates this is the 1000 block, the 1100 block, the 1200 block, etc. Rather than being a point feature attached to buildings, it would be a tag associated with the way. It would be much easier to implement, make the map renderings much more presentable at small scales, and provide better address utility than presently exists. Point features can be automatically conflated into ranges (thus you can get simple rendering). Ranges can't properly spread out to form points. Many governments have very good parcel data, with addresses, as point or polygon features. That data is very accurate, and even updated as conditions change. --- I'm a fan of local mapping by real mappers. But I also know that the use case for map /users/ often starts with asking for directions. That requires address data that's near perfect. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
Re: [Talk-us] Address improvement through imports?
On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 21:16 -0400, Mike N wrote: On 11/1/2011 7:14 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: But let's discuss: are address imports useful (I say yes, for geocoding and routing they're indispensable), necessary (I say yes, potential OSM data users will want to be able to do these things) and feasible (I say yes, if there's local mappers to oversee it)? I would agree - yes, yes, and yes if the data quality is good enough. TIGER is not of sufficient quality or precision to import - it is obfuscated to comply with privacy laws, but could be used by an external geocoder to get to the general vicinity. As long as we have all of the addresses, we could use satellite data to align them with houses. Is this the type of data we have in TIGER? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
