Hi Matthew Woehlke <mwoehlke.fl...@gmail.com> skrev: (25 augusti 2020 15:25:19 CEST) >On 24/08/2020 16.25, pangoSE wrote: >> Martin Koppenhoefer skrev: (24 augusti 2020 02:16:27 CEST) >>> Also useful when the POI is approximately placed (e.g. in a >>> neighbouring building, happens quite often, at least as long as most >>> POIs are not yet mapped) >> >> Really? Can you link to an example? I have never come across a POI >> that needed a special address. I would rather map to he entry in the >> that case and put the address there. > >Just about any strip mall. For example, 42.8625, -73.7831. I can give >at >least three other examples within 1000 *feet*; in a few miles, probably > >a dozen or more. > >Mapping stores in such cases practically requires mapping the *insides* > >of the buildings. It's much more typical to drop a POI in about the >right place (either the middle of the store, or the entrance to the >store). Yet, these *do* have distinct addresses. > >The same can easily happen with multi-unit dwellings. > >Also, mailboxes have addresses, but are unlikely to be mapped as ways >due to their size. > >> The POI IMO cannot logically have an address itself, its a human >> symbol for designating something of interest within a feature like a >> building, park or whatever. > >...or its a somewhat abstracted representation of a building because no > >one has yet made the effort to map the building more precisely. BTW, >it's not that unusual for detached houses to be mapped as POIs, >especially when addresses are imported from GIS data that gives them >only as points. Yes, in an ideal world everything of this nature would >be mapped as a way, but that isn't always practical. > >> When the Swedish geosurvey sometime soon release all public adresses >> for free we will have to merge them all with the buildings where >> possible. >...And what will you do if there is no building, and it isn't obvious >how to add one (e.g. strip malls)? Not import that address at all? > >> thinking about it postal addresses follows land plots and legal >boundaries and not POIs. > >Actually, AFAIK this is only partly true. Yes, the address "123 Cherry >Lane" follows a plot, but I'm not aware of anything preventing me from >erecting three structures on that plot and designating them "unit 1", >"unit 3.14" and "unit gamma". This would be unusual on a residential >plot, but not at all (well, sans my intentionally bizarre numbering) >for >a commercial building.
I rest my case. Thanks for the examples. Could you help update the wikipage about POIs to reflect this? Cheers 😃 _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging