Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-07 Thread Maarten Deen
Lennard wrote: On 6-5-2011 20:44, Pierre-Alain Dorange wrote: I could not really help you (i don't know your region, but as i can see (using JOSM) there is no admin relation in this area, so few clues to help nomatim to find location. The entire Netherlands is covered by admin relations.

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-06 Thread Pierre-Alain Dorange
Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote: I was unaware I still had the country wrong for some places, I thought I'd found and fixed all these. Recalculating the street now produces the right result (as you can see if you re-do your search) so I'll do another forced update and try and

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-06 Thread Lennard
On 6-5-2011 20:44, Pierre-Alain Dorange wrote: I could not really help you (i don't know your region, but as i can see (using JOSM) there is no admin relation in this area, so few clues to help nomatim to find location. The entire Netherlands is covered by admin relations. Of course,

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-06 Thread Pierre-Alain Dorange
Lennard l...@xs4all.nl wrote: I could not really help you (i don't know your region, but as i can see (using JOSM) there is no admin relation in this area, so few clues to help nomatim to find location. The entire Netherlands is covered by admin relations. Of course, occasionally,

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-06 Thread Lennard
On 6-5-2011 22:46, Pierre-Alain Dorange wrote: OK, that's the admin relation Nominatim used to link the request street to Peel en Maas. Correct. It's correct, given the data. The real question is why it was also categorised as being in Belgium. I hope you could get them soon. We'd have

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-06 Thread Pierre-Alain Dorange
Lennard l...@xs4all.nl wrote: OK, that's the admin relation Nominatim used to link the request street to Peel en Maas. Correct. It's correct, given the data. The real question is why it was also categorised as being in Belgium. Following MapQuest Nominatim link (for Belgium response) :

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-05 Thread Pierre-Alain Dorange
Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote: Nominatim use them (boundariy relations) efficiently. The lookup may be efficient, it is frequently wrong and again dependent of correct and complete admin_levels. Currently it places every street where I live (in the Netherlands) in Belgium and

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-05 Thread Brian Quinion
The lookup may be efficient, it is frequently wrong and again dependent of correct and complete admin_levels. Currently it places every street where I live (in the Netherlands) in Belgium and does not specify a town with it. Looking for Jacob van Marisring returns Jacob van Marisring, België

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-04 Thread Pierre-Alain Dorange
Felix Hartmann extremecar...@gmail.com wrote: Nope, it makes sense all the time. Cause boundaries really are not ment for deducting information onto what's inside. This really slows down any kind of processing (much much more than having data duplicated which only takes up a bit more disk

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-04 Thread Maarten Deen
On Wed, 4 May 2011 08:07:07 +0200, pdora...@mac.com (Pierre-Alain Dorange) wrote: Felix Hartmann extremecar...@gmail.com wrote: Nope, it makes sense all the time. Cause boundaries really are not ment for deducting information onto what's inside. This really slows down any kind of processing

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-04 Thread Jaak Laineste
2011/5/4 Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl: On Wed, 4 May 2011 08:07:07 +0200, pdora...@mac.com (Pierre-Alain Dorange) wrote: Felix Hartmann extremecar...@gmail.com wrote: Nope, it makes sense all the time. Cause boundaries really are not ment for deducting information onto what's inside. This

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-04 Thread Mike N
On 5/4/2011 7:58 AM, Jaak Laineste wrote: Regarding user interface: I would add quick street selector feature to JOSM (and other editors) - when you open PresetAnnotationsAddress screen, then instead of text field it would have buttons to select quickly up to 5 nearest streetnames. I would

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-04 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/5/4 Jaak Laineste jaak.laine...@gmail.com: Regarding user interface: I would add quick street selector feature to JOSM (and other editors) a workaround to improve usability would be to enable autocompletion of addr:street with the values of the name-keys of the highways. cheers, Martin

[OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-03 Thread Jaak Laineste
Hello, It looks like trivial suggestion, but could not find any past discussions with quick search. Is there good reason to add addr:country, addr:county, addr:city and other regional tags to all the address tags, if OSM database already has administrative regions for given area? These admin

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-03 Thread Thomas Davie
On 3 May 2011, at 08:57, Jaak Laineste wrote: Hello, It looks like trivial suggestion, but could not find any past discussions with quick search. Is there good reason to add addr:country, addr:county, addr:city and other regional tags to all the address tags, if OSM database already

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-03 Thread Ed Avis
Jaak Laineste jaak.laineste at gmail.com writes: Is there good reason to add addr:country, addr:county, addr:city and other regional tags to all the address tags, if OSM database already has administrative regions for given area? I don't think so, except in cases where the postal regions are

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-03 Thread Nathan Edgars II
Jaak Laineste wrote: Is there good reason to add addr:country, addr:county, addr:city and other regional tags to all the address tags, if OSM database already has administrative regions for given area? I can't speak for the other tags, but addr:city is not the same as is_in:city. I have an

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-03 Thread Maarten Deen
Jaak Laineste jaak.laineste at gmail.com writes: Is there good reason to add addr:country, addr:county, addr:city and other regional tags to all the address tags, if OSM database already has administrative regions for given area? I think addr:country can be identified by existing borders, but

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-03 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/5/3 Jo winfi...@gmail.com: What I do to avoid most redundancy, is to create an associatedStreet relation. ... I add more than one street to them though, even if JOSM complains about that. it is not just JOSM complaining about this, it is against the spec: Members Way/nodeRole

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-03 Thread Felix Hartmann
On 03.05.2011 10:09, Thomas Davie wrote: On 3 May 2011, at 08:57, Jaak Laineste wrote: Hello, It looks like trivial suggestion, but could not find any past discussions with quick search. Is there good reason to add addr:country, addr:county, addr:city and other regional tags to all the

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-03 Thread Jo
The very first I did, I did it according to 'spec': http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/7595148 The result is a ridiculous amount of 4 relations for a street of less than 1,5 km in length. Some of which only contain one house. And each of them containing redundant name, addr:city,

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-03 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/5/3 Jo winfi...@gmail.com: The very first I did, I did it according to 'spec': http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/7595148 The result is a ridiculous amount of 4 relations for a street of less than 1,5 km in length. Some of which only contain one house. And each of them

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-03 Thread Pieren
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Felix Hartmann extremecar...@gmail.comwrote: +1 boundaries are too often wrong or incomplete or if someone deletes them accidentally (or renames them slightly) again the is_in discussion All these arguments above are also valid when you put the full

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-03 Thread Jo
Hmm, I'm convinced the associatedStreet relation is the most elegant way to solve the redundancy problem. The biggest issue with it is the one street per relation limitation, which I don't understand where it comes from. So, as far as I'm concerned, it'd be better to redefine it. Polyglot

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 05/03/2011 03:12 PM, Jo wrote: Hmm, I'm convinced the associatedStreet relation is the most elegant way to solve the redundancy problem. The biggest issue with it is the one street per relation limitation, which I don't understand where it comes from. So, as far as I'm concerned, it'd be

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-03 Thread Tobias Knerr
Jo wrote: Hmm, I'm convinced the associatedStreet relation is the most elegant way to solve the redundancy problem. There is no redundancy problem. No, really. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with redundancy. Redundancy per se doesn't cause any harm to our database. Looking at taginfo and

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-03 Thread Richard Welty
On 3 May 2011 15:03:07 +0200, M?rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I know. In your case (just one house) the relation indeed seems to be far less adequate in respect to simple tags. Relations add a complexity that is mostly not desirable IMHO for cases like housenumbers. The

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-03 Thread Ed Avis
Felix Hartmann extremecarver at gmail.com writes: Cause boundaries really are not ment for deducting information onto what's inside. This really slows down any kind of processing (much much more than having data duplicated which only takes up a bit more disk space). It's one thing to say that to

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-03 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/5/3 Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com: It's one thing to say that to speed up and simplify processing, there should be duplicated data.  Quite another to say that every contributor, on every object that has an address, should manually add several redundant tags. Let's tag the information that

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-03 Thread Pieren
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Felix Hartmann extremecar...@gmail.comwrote: Cause boundaries really are not ment for deducting information onto what's inside. I don't know what to say against that Pieren ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-03 Thread Kevin Peat
On 3 May 2011 15:53, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: You seem to imply that relations are faster / less manual work requiring when entering addresses manually with one of the OSM editors, but from my own experience they require at least the same (manual) work, if not more.

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-03 Thread Jo
Select some street parts, building outlines and nodes. Press the button to create a new relation and add them. Then add the properties to the relation. That really doesn't take longer than adding those properties directly to the elements themselves. Of course, I always have the relation overview

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-03 Thread Jaak Laineste
2011/5/3 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com: You seem to imply that relations are faster / less manual work requiring when entering addresses manually with one of the OSM editors, but from my own experience they require at least the same (manual) work, if not more. Creating relation

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-03 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/5/3 Jaak Laineste jaak.laine...@gmail.com: 2011/5/3 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com: Creating relation could be same, or even more extra work, this is correct (but fixable in editor level). actually it will (with explicit numbers without interpolation) not be possible at the

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-03 Thread Ed Avis
M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist at gmail.com writes: Let's tag the information that is needed, but not restate the same thing in several different ways.  Then if some different presentation of that info is needed, this can be done in a separate post-processing step by a computer, not by people.

Re: [OSM-talk] Skip geographical (redundant) address tags

2011-05-03 Thread Vincent Pottier
Le 03/05/2011 16:54, Pieren a écrit : On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Felix Hartmann extremecar...@gmail.com mailto:extremecar...@gmail.com wrote: Cause boundaries really are not ment for deducting information onto what's inside. I don't know what to say against that Pieren