Re: [OSM-talk-be] Address stats in Belgium

2013-04-16 Thread Glenn Plas
If you use the tool, you know that fixAddresses plugin (who follows what the wiki told them) takes care of the postal code in one simple click on the 'guess button, the editor just needs to verify them. The postalcode + street are the most important ones to put on a building. On Tue, Apr

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Address stats in Belgium

2013-04-16 Thread Glenn Plas
On 04/16/2013 05:41 AM, Marc Gemis wrote: I use most of these plugins. But recently I started using them less, because now I convert my GPX waypoints to OSM data points automatically. The only thing I do not do is repeating the postal code over and over, but since you insist, I'll do that

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Address stats in Belgium

2013-04-16 Thread Marc Gemis
I never put address details on sheds or garages. The building=house is on the http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features#Building page. That's as official as it can get for me. Also use building=apartment whenever I can/remember/wrote down. I did use AGIV for some of my more recent

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Address stats in Belgium

2013-04-16 Thread Glenn Plas
On 04/16/2013 10:08 AM, Marc Gemis wrote: I never put address details on sheds or garages. Didn't mean to sound like you did. I actually did in the past by not paying enough attention to the plugins, I'm in the process of fixing this btw :) The building=house is on the

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Address stats in Belgium

2013-04-16 Thread Glenn Plas
On 04/16/2013 11:01 AM, Marc Gemis wrote: Maybe I should start using the fixaddresses plugin I've been using the plugins terracer, building tool, etc. for over 1 1/2 year. I even wrote a page on it: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Escada/JOSM_and_Housenumbers :-) But now that I have

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Address stats in Belgium

2013-04-16 Thread Marc Gemis
I ended up adding all the shop tags on the building. It only works for buildings with only 1 shop/restaurant/pub/... m. On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Glenn Plas gl...@byte-consult.be wrote: On 04/16/2013 11:01 AM, Marc Gemis wrote: Maybe I should start using the fixaddresses plugin

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Address stats in Belgium

2013-04-16 Thread Glenn Plas
I ended up adding all the shop tags on the building. It only works for buildings with only 1 shop/restaurant/pub/... Doesn't that remove the nice icon on the map when done on a way ? I really like those icons. Just found an example:

[OSM-talk-be] Address stats in Belgium

2013-04-15 Thread JorenDC
Hi, In December there was a thread (start: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-be/2012-December/003367.html) containing some numbers/stats. @Sander, *: is it possible to share your used method to pull these stats (or just pull them again) and publish them on a 'frequent' base (I'm

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Address stats in Belgium

2013-04-15 Thread Marc Gemis
Your complain about street being placed in wrong cities, is exactly why we should use associatedStreet relations instead of repeating addr:street addr:city over and over on individual buildings. In that case you only have to correct it once, on the relation, and the data is corrected. But I'll

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Address stats in Belgium

2013-04-15 Thread Ivo De Broeck
There are good reasons for addr:street on individual building. A lot of programs (like some apps) don t show the associated street, or are difficult to find (Potlach). Not every contributor uses JOSM 2013/4/15 Marc Gemis marc.ge...@gmail.com Your complain about street being placed in wrong

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Address stats in Belgium

2013-04-15 Thread Glenn Plas
It doesn't matter where they are , you still have to put those tags on a relation, so they better be in the correct city to start with ... Wrong postal codes, wrong city I would rather _NOT_ have wrong ones than the 'close enough for me' type of data. My point was introducing wrong

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Address stats in Belgium

2013-04-15 Thread Marc Gemis
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 6:46 AM, Jo winfi...@gmail.com wrote: I thought the consensus was that we repeat addr:street for each house but not the other information like addr:city, addr:postcode, addr:country and whatnot. Imagine what happens to the size of the DB (and all its derivatives like