Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-22 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2009-12-22 02:07, Erik Johansson wrote: On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: At 2009-12-21 11:01, Roy Wallace wrote: ... If you don't know where the other end of the street is, you can't use an addr:interpolation way, so it seems to me that you

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-22 Thread Roy Wallace
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: The current scheme with drawing a way to interpolate is too much work and cumbersome, for me anyways. I agree it's cumbersome. The interval is not definite - only that it be at least 2 because of the spec of

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-22 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.netalan_mintz%2b...@earthlink.net wrote: At 2009-12-22 11:59, Roy Wallace wrote: I think Karlsruhe is still the best approach - e.g. even if you have 4, 6, 12, 18, 50, an even interpolation way from 4 to 50 is the best you

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-22 Thread Tobias Knerr
Alan Mintz wrote: At 2009-12-22 11:59, Roy Wallace wrote: I think Karlsruhe is still the best approach - e.g. even if you have 4, 6, 12, 18, 50, an even interpolation way from 4 to 50 is the best you can do short of mapping each address individually. Except for this pesky line in the wiki

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-22 Thread Roy Wallace
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: At 2009-12-22 11:59, Roy Wallace wrote: I think Karlsruhe is still the best approach - e.g. even if you have 4, 6, 12, 18, 50, an even interpolation way from 4 to 50 is the best you can do short of mapping each

[Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-21 Thread Erik Johansson
Hi I've slowly started using addr:housenumbers, I'm not really interested in doing it according to the way the addr:* scheme work atm though.. Because of the amount of work to enter data in that scheme. Here are the things that I believe is different from the addr:* scheme.. 1. I use

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Erik Johansson wrote: 1. I use addr:housenumbers, just to get numbers on the map. Even though I don't follow the spec. Then why don't you use place=locality, name=45-29 if that's all you want. Does anyone have any improvements to make this scheme better? Yes, use the same scheme that

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-21 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/12/21 Erik Johansson erjo...@gmail.com Hi I've slowly started using addr:housenumbers, I'm not really interested in doing it according to the way the addr:* scheme work atm though.. Because of the amount of work to enter data in that scheme. are you aware of JOSM-Presets and

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-21 Thread David Earl
On 21/12/2009 15:39, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: are you aware of JOSM-Presets and autocompletion? If you work in JOSM and use the presets, the street, city and country-tags will be autocompleted. Furthermore if you use JOSM's addressing plugin, you don't have to type the street name at all -

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-21 Thread Tobias Knerr
Erik Johansson wrote: Does anyone have any improvements to make this scheme better? Yes: Choose key names for your scheme that aren't already in use and are clearly different from existing keys. That is, they shouldn't start with addr: - that prefix is commonly used for tagging addresses in a

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-21 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/12/21 Erik Johansson erjo...@gmail.com On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Then why don't you use place=locality, name=45-29 if that's all you want. Thanks, that's a good idea (if it works), what do you mean by: if it works? All alternative ways

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-21 Thread Erik Johansson
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/21 Erik Johansson erjo...@gmail.com On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Then why don't you use place=locality, name=45-29 if that's all you want. Thanks,

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-21 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/12/21 Erik Johansson erjo...@gmail.com But it is retrieved in the only way I care about namely the rendered map. It could be retrieved by geocoders as well, with small changes, it was this change I wanted help with. Note, place=locality seems even better after what you said, or do you

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-21 Thread Roy Wallace
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Erik Johansson erjo...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone have any improvements to make this scheme better? If you know where the other end of the street is, use an addr:interpolation way, in accordance with the wiki. I think your case was essentially why

Re: [Tagging] Adding housnumber the lazy way.

2009-12-21 Thread Alan Mintz
At 2009-12-21 11:01, Roy Wallace wrote: ... If you don't know where the other end of the street is, you can't use an addr:interpolation way, so it seems to me that you are just tagging a sign. Is there already a tagging scheme for this? If not, propose one - but (as others have said) don't use