Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

2015-03-03 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Weighing in late here (sorry!), Scout US is currently not using OSM addresses for search and geocoding. Might want to turn that on so OSM overrides whatever database it's currently checking. I haven't intensively used

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

2015-02-12 Thread Clifford Snow
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Peter Dobratz pe...@dobratz.us wrote: I agree with the sentiment in this wiki page that I quoted here. I think that if there is only 1 POI that occupies the building, then that is best indicated by putting the tags for the POI on the building polygon. If you

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

2015-02-12 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
How about this: particularly in the case of two businesses within one building polygon, create non-building area's for the business tags. Then you get the sense of scale of the business, and preserve the free tagging of the building polygon. ___

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

2015-02-12 Thread Peter Dobratz
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Peter Dobratz pe...@dobratz.us wrote: I agree with the sentiment in this wiki page that I quoted here. I think that if there is only 1 POI that occupies the building, then that is

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

2015-02-12 Thread Peter Dobratz
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 6:04 PM, Bryce Nesbitt bry...@obviously.com wrote: This seems to be tagging for the renderer which is not a good idea. If the only thing occupying the building is a single POI, then put the POI tags on the closed Way for the building outline. By adding a new object

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

2015-02-12 Thread Martijn van Exel
Weighing in late here (sorry!), Scout US is currently not using OSM addresses for search and geocoding. Martijn On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 2:19 AM, Hans De Kryger hans.dekryge...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know if osm navigation apps can route you to your location using area's tagged with a

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

2015-02-11 Thread Bryce Nesbitt
This seems to be tagging for the renderer which is not a good idea. If the only thing occupying the building is a single POI, then put the POI tags on the closed Way for the building outline. By adding a new object (Node) for the POI, you are also going against the One feature, one OSM

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

2015-02-10 Thread Greg Morgan
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Peter Dobratz pe...@dobratz.us wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Greg Morgan dr.kludge...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 4:23 AM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: ... The addr:housenumber doesn't render anyway if the building has also been

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

2015-02-09 Thread Peter Dobratz
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Greg Morgan dr.kludge...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 4:23 AM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: ... The addr:housenumber doesn't render anyway if the building has also been tagged as another POI that renders. I've solved this problem by putting

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

2015-02-05 Thread Greg Morgan
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 4:23 AM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: On 2/4/2015 11:25 PM, Greg Morgan wrote: addr:housenumber contains both the number and the building letter in the same field. The map is useful because you can find the building. How have other people tried to handle these

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

2015-02-05 Thread John F. Eldredge
On February 4, 2015 10:25:02 PM CST, Greg Morgan dr.kludge...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Darrell Fuhriman darr...@garnix.org wrote: It seems to be addr:unit, though it’s not widely used. It’s what I’ve been using, though.

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

2015-02-05 Thread Brad Neuhauser
I punted. When Josm added a preset that included addr:flats, then I started using that tag. Right or wrong I figured most of the other tags are Euro-English coloured, so to speak, that it did not mater if I used addr:flats verses addr:unit. __

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

2015-02-05 Thread Brad Neuhauser
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 5:23 AM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: On 2/4/2015 11:25 PM, Greg Morgan wrote: addr:housenumber contains both the number and the building letter in the same field. The map is useful because you can find the building. How have other people tried to handle these

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

2015-02-05 Thread Clifford Snow
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Brad Neuhauser brad.neuhau...@gmail.com wrote: Including a unit number in the house number is incorrect and potentially confusing. There are house numbers that have a prefix or suffix as part of the house number, that's a different thing. It just depends on how

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

2015-02-05 Thread Mike N
On 2/4/2015 11:25 PM, Greg Morgan wrote: addr:housenumber contains both the number and the building letter in the same field. The map is useful because you can find the building. How have other people tried to handle these situations? I haven't tried in any meaningful way. It's too early

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

2015-02-04 Thread Greg Morgan
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Darrell Fuhriman darr...@garnix.org wrote: It seems to be addr:unit, though it’s not widely used. It’s what I’ve been using, though. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:unit d. On Feb 3, 2015, at 12:28, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: What's

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

2015-02-03 Thread John F. Eldredge
On February 3, 2015 2:39:42 PM CST, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: Wonder if we could get this added to the address presets, as this (at least for the US) is a pretty big deal between office towers,

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

2015-02-03 Thread Paul Johnson
What's the correct tag for unit number, anyway? This is driving me insane since it's making it impossible to complete mapping the caravan site I live in to a level of completeness that you can navigate by without trying to find the unit numbers (which, stupidly, are all on the utility pedestals

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

2015-02-03 Thread Clifford Snow
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: Wonder if we could get this added to the address presets, as this (at least for the US) is a pretty big deal between office towers, apartment buildings, trailer parks, and almost every other situation where you have

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

2015-02-03 Thread Darrell Fuhriman
It seems to be addr:unit, though it’s not widely used. It’s what I’ve been using, though. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:unit d. On Feb 3, 2015, at 12:28, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: What's the correct tag for unit number, anyway? This is driving me insane since

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

2015-02-03 Thread Paul Johnson
Wonder if we could get this added to the address presets, as this (at least for the US) is a pretty big deal between office towers, apartment buildings, trailer parks, and almost every other situation where you have multiple tenants on the same cadastre lot... On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 2:33 PM,

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

2015-02-03 Thread Hans De Kryger
I use the same tag (addr:unit) been using it mostly for retail areas with suite numbers. Haven't used it anywhere else yet. On Feb 3, 2015 1:40 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: Wonder if we could get this

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

2014-12-08 Thread Richard Weait
That would depend on the navigation app in question, wouldn't it? If we mappers include more data, well structured, complete and up to date, app developers will be more inclined / motivated to make their apps work with it, I would think. I think, based on your email, that you and I are mapping

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

2014-12-08 Thread Brian Egge
Mkgmap will search for an entrance=main, then an entrance=yes, and lastly use the building's centroid. On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 4:21 AM Hans De Kryger hans.dekryge...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know if osm navigation apps can route you to your location using area's tagged with a full address? I

Re: [Talk-us] Tagging addresses on area's

2014-12-08 Thread Tod Fitch
I don't think the issue would be routing so much as finding the location. I just checked OsmAnd to see if it could find a near by apartment complex where the grounds are tagged with, among other tags addr:housenumber=*, addr:street=*, landuse=residential and name=*. The buildings on it are