If someone were to use OSM for dispatching, dispatching software generally requires a destination address to be associated with a corresponding street in order to dispatch to an address point (as opposed to dispatching to an interpolated street geocode). That would be one reason for associating objects with the streets they are on. It is also useful for non-USPS situs addresses (for example, parcel lot addresses for office buildings or condos).
Brett Lord-Castillo Information Systems Designer/GIS Programmer St. Louis County Police Office of Emergency Management 14847 Ladue Bluffs Crossing Drive Chesterfield, MO 63017 Office: 314-628-5400 Fax: 314-628-5508 Direct: 314-628-5407 -----Original Message----- Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 23:00:45 -0400 From: "David ``Smith''" <vidthe...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Street Naming Conventions To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org Message-ID: <aanlktinvugzsb2fsxicwduebb6ip7wdk7smi1o-2p...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Phil! Gold <phi...@pobox.com> wrote: > * David ``Smith'' <vidthe...@gmail.com> [2010-05-14 23:58 -0400]: >> 5) The value of "addr:street=*" should contain the abbreviated form of >> the street name according to USPS standards, regardless of the way the >> street name is signed. > > The point of addr:street is to associate the address to a particular road, > so its value needs to match the name of the road. ?(There's also the > associatedStreet relation, but more people use the addr:street tag.) As Frederik already asserted, that's incorrect. But if for some reason you need to associate an object with a street without using an AssociatedStreet relation, you could always give the street its own addr:street tag with the same value as all of the objects along it, which uses the same USPS-based abbreviation. But I'm not sure what is accomplished by associating objects with the street they're on. (As far as I know, the original point of the associatedStreet relation was to automatically imply addr:street values for all of the objects by using the street's name or addr:street value. What you said is kind of backwards from that.) -- David "Smith" a.k.a. Vid the Kid a.k.a. B?r'd'in Does this font make me look fat? ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us End of Talk-us Digest, Vol 30, Issue 28 *************************************** _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us