Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion

2008-07-29 Thread Thorsten Feles
Jochen Topf schrieb: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:16:33AM -0700, Karl Newman wrote: >> To be clear, I don't have a problem with tagging the actual location of the >> house or building. I think it's unnecessary, but the problem I have with the >> scheme is that it doesn't definitively link the node

Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion

2008-07-29 Thread Karl Newman
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Karl Newman wrote: > >Sent: 29 July 2008 6:48 PM > >To: Jochen Topf > >Cc: talk > >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion > > > >

Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion

2008-07-29 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Karl Newman wrote: >Sent: 29 July 2008 6:48 PM >To: Jochen Topf >Cc: talk >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion > >On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Jochen Topf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:16:33AM -0700

Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion

2008-07-29 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Karl Newman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Sent: 29 July 2008 6:17 PM >To: Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) >Cc: Jan-Benedict Glaw; Frederik Ramm; talk >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion > >On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 4:06 AM, Andy Robinson (blackadd

Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion

2008-07-29 Thread Karl Newman
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Jochen Topf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:16:33AM -0700, Karl Newman wrote: > > To be clear, I don't have a problem with tagging the actual location of > the > > house or building. I think it's unnecessary, but the problem I have with > t

Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion

2008-07-29 Thread Jochen Topf
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:16:33AM -0700, Karl Newman wrote: > To be clear, I don't have a problem with tagging the actual location of the > house or building. I think it's unnecessary, but the problem I have with the > scheme is that it doesn't definitively link the node with the way (what's a > h

Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion

2008-07-29 Thread Karl Newman
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 4:06 AM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The reason I don't like ideas like this is that the data you are adding to > the way (or as Frederik pointed out possibly also the intersections) is not > actually anything to do with the physical fe

Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion

2008-07-29 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: >Sent: 29 July 2008 11:33 AM >To: Frederik Ramm >Cc: talk >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion > >On Tue, 2008-07-29 12:02:34 +0200, Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: >> Tagging house numbers onto int

Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion

2008-07-29 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Tue, 2008-07-29 12:02:34 +0200, Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tagging house numbers onto intersections or ways is just a lame > workaround employed by many existing data sets because they can't > model every single house. I have absolutely zero doubt that sooner or > later, OS

Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion

2008-07-29 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, > I once had a look at the Karlsruhe Schema and i found it "ugly" from a > technical point of view. In my world one wants explicit links between > two objects but the proposal simply draws points or polygons "next to" > something which is not a explicit link. That's correct. Many people seem

Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion

2008-07-29 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 07:12:54PM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion > > Hi, > > > I added one suggestion to the "House Numbers" page. It's the eighth one. > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php

Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion

2008-07-29 Thread Robert Vollmert
On Jul 29, 2008, at 00:40, Karl Newman wrote: > Don't overestimate the usage of the current data scheme, though. The > Germans are prolific mappers, but I would be surprised if there are > even a few thousand addresses entered in the current format, if that. According to tagwatch, around 2

Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion

2008-07-28 Thread Jochen Topf
Maybe some words about how the whole house number stuff in Karlsruhe came about, will help understand, what we had in mind: We looked at the different proposals and saw that there was a difficult problem that had gotten stuck. Many ideas, but no progress. But it needed to be addressed, because add

Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion

2008-07-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
Matthieu, > I would like to have it approved... Just imagine what would happen if > the Karlsruhe schema is declared unefficient, and must be disregarded > (for some reason, such as the ones explained by Karl). All the data > would be lost, or would require huge processing for conversion into a >

Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion

2008-07-28 Thread Karl Newman
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Charlie Echo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >Hi, > >> If things are clear, and if there is a consensus about using this > Karlsruhe schema, let's have a vote on it. > >> This will make things easier: we would then have a clean situation. This > would enable people to

Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion

2008-07-28 Thread Charlie Echo
>Hi, >> If things are clear, and if there is a consensus about using this Karlsruhe >> schema, let's have a vote on it. >> This will make things easier: we would then have a clean situation. This >> would enable people to enter the data. >I don't think you have fully understood what I was saying

Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion

2008-07-28 Thread Marc Schütz
Am Montag, 28. Juli 2008 20:37 schrieb Karl Newman: > It's not "a bit more difficult", it's a huge burden. It means you presume > the data consumer has to be working from a database that contains the > entire area you're interested in (maybe the planet?). You can safely assume that a house is almo

Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion

2008-07-28 Thread Karl Newman
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Karl Newman wrote: > >> Given a street, I'd have to look through NN million nodes to find the >> closest ones >> > > No. The nodes are tagged with street names, thus duplicating info found on > the way. You just n

Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion

2008-07-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Karl Newman wrote: > Given a street, I'd have to look through NN million nodes to find the > closest ones No. The nodes are tagged with street names, thus duplicating info found on the way. You just need an index on that field, look up the street name in the index, and immediately know all

Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion

2008-07-28 Thread Douglas Furlong
With the current scheme how would one numbering blocks of flats? there is no explicit allowance in the current scheme as far as i can see. On 7/28/08, Karl Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Charlie Echo > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> If things are clear, and

Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion

2008-07-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, > If things are clear, and if there is a consensus about using this Karlsruhe > schema, let's have a vote on it. > This will make things easier: we would then have a clean situation. This > would enable people to enter the data. I don't think you have fully understood what I was saying. The

Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion

2008-07-28 Thread Karl Newman
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Charlie Echo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > If things are clear, and if there is a consensus about using this Karlsruhe > schema, let's have a vote on it. > > This will make things easier: we would then have a clean situation. This > would enable people to enter the

Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion

2008-07-28 Thread Charlie Echo
tmap" Envoyé: Lundi 28 Juillet 2008 17:48:54 GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Berne / Rome / Stockholm / Vienne Objet: Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frederik Ramm wrote: | Hi, | |> I really have a problem with this &#x

Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion

2008-07-28 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frederik Ramm wrote: | Hi, | |> I really have a problem with this 'way' linking address nodes in the |> Karlsruhe schema. We know that the relation has been created for that. |> This 'way' is just here because some people do not know (or don't want |>

Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion

2008-07-25 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, > I really have a problem with this 'way' linking address nodes in the > Karlsruhe schema. We know that the relation has been created for that. > This 'way' is just here because some people do not know (or don't want > to know) how to use relations in the editors. Then use a relation inst

Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion

2008-07-25 Thread Pieren
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using the "Karlsruhe Schema" > These interpolation rules are explicitly modeled as a new way connecting > the > nodes, which may look a but unusual at first but (a) it's going to go > away once editors learn how to "di

Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion

2008-07-25 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I find that very confusing. > > I'm using the "Karlsruhe Schema" > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/House_numbers Ok, I've looked at this and I'm missing the case where a building has a number of s

Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion

2008-07-25 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Frederik Ramm wrote: >Sent: 25 July 2008 6:13 PM >To: Charlie Echo >Cc: talk >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion > >Hi, > >> I added one suggestion to the "House Numbers" page. It's the eighth one. >> http://wiki.openstreetm

Re: [OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion

2008-07-25 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, > I added one suggestion to the "House Numbers" page. It's the eighth one. > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/House_numbers I find that very confusing. I'm using the "Karlsruhe Schema" http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/House_numbers and if yo

[OSM-talk] House numbers... One more suggestion

2008-07-25 Thread Charlie Echo
Hello, I added one suggestion to the "House Numbers" page. It's the eighth one. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/House_numbers I really think we must solve this issue quickly, for two reasons: - it will make the map really more attractive. We must have a map at the same l