On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 04:25:47PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > hi, > > > I'm not saying OSM as an open database is failing. I just think the > > survey+map model requires many more people than we'll ever find. > > You are too impatient and you fail to see the great results we already > produced. OSM is the most valuable GeoDataset available worldwide. There are > hundrets of services using OSM in production already. Addresses is "the last > big thing" we miss for example in Germany. But still - Out of the 200 > countries > world wide i guess 100 dont even have an Adressing scheme. More than halve of > the worlds population dont HAVE an Address. You can not send them a postcard > and they cant order on Amazon. And you talk about OSM beeing useless because > we > dont have the 1% of Addresses in our surrounding? > > Just to get this into perspective. >
Adressing the World - This is what i was remembering. http://www.upu.int/en/activities/addressing/addressing-the-world-initiative.html http://www.upu.int/fileadmin/documentsFiles/activities/addressingAssistance/brochureAddressingTheWorldEn.pdf From the Foreword: Today, an address is considered part of a person’s identity, and not only in the UPU environment. According to the United Nations Development Programme’s Commission on the Legal Empowerment of the Poor, 4 billion people are excluded from the rule of law because they do not have a legal identity. This lack of identity is often a barrier to the enjoyment of their rights as citizens. Setting up an address infrastructure is one step towards tackling this issue. Just another perspective. Flo -- Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de
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