Re: [Talk-GB] importing house shapes

2012-10-19 Thread thomas van der veen
Hi Matt I would also personally encourage people to add associatedStreet > relations to their mapping (since it makes my life easier for the > Postcode Finder) but I understand that some people just prefer to use > addr:street. Unfortunately the Postcode Finder is down at the moment > (due to an

Re: [Talk-GB] Downloading OSM data for certain area using Geofabrik

2012-10-19 Thread Andy Robinson
If your device has sufficient storage for the whole map of the UK then I can recommend http://talkytoaster.info/ukmaps.htm Been using for years now on my Legend Hcx and very happy. Cheers Andy > -Original Message- > From: Dave F. [mailto:dave...@madasafish.com] > Sent: 18 October 2012 21:

Re: [Talk-GB] importing house shapes

2012-10-19 Thread Matt Williams
On 19 October 2012 10:05, thomas van der veen wrote: > I have used the terraced house plug in a few times and have found it very > useful, but I don't quite understand the difference between addr:street > (which is what I do at the moment) and adding a relation? > > Could you please explain this a

Re: [Talk-GB] importing house shapes

2012-10-19 Thread Richard Mann
That's pretty much entirely a relation-as-category, though, isn't it? I'm wondering whether there'd be a case for a very small number of high-value (in terms of processing speed) relations to be created automatically, available to data consumers in the normal way through the API, but _not_ shown i

Re: [Talk-GB] importing house shapes

2012-10-19 Thread Tom Chance
On 19 October 2012 11:11, Richard Mann wrote: > I'm wondering whether there'd be a case for a very small number of > high-value (in terms of processing speed) relations to be created > automatically, available to data consumers in the normal way through the > API, but _not_ shown in editors? These

Re: [Talk-GB] importing house shapes

2012-10-19 Thread Matt Williams
On 19 October 2012 11:11, Richard Mann wrote: > That's pretty much entirely a relation-as-category, though, isn't it? I would argue not. "Don't use relations as categories" was devised to combat people doing things like adding all buildings designed by a particular architect to a relation or addi

Re: [Talk-GB] importing house shapes

2012-10-19 Thread Richard Mann
I think I was more concerned about the likelihood of the data being entered correctly (ie putting an undue load on mappers to do something that a computer can do with a much higher likelihood of success). Maybe there are instances where the relation would have to be created by hand (to sort out du