On 6/8/2011 12:43 PM, Alan Mintz wrote:
Is that/will that not be a popular use for OSM? It does not make
walking directions impossible - just requires the addition of the
driveway to the map. OTOH, putting the pin on the front door of a
building inside a large parcel may well leave a driver lost and quite
a distance from where he needs to be.
Ah I see. Well the question is really whether the centroid is better
than the front door. My argument would be no, the centroid is usually in
a pretty random place. The front door with some clever processing will
get you the house and also the driveway shapes.
Steve
On 6/7/2011 3:28 PM, Alan Mintz wrote:
"The site allows you to drag a pin from where we think an address
currently is to the front door of the property"
Is that really where we want the pin to be for driving directions?
I've mostly tended to either putting the address info on a complete
landuse polygon, or if a point, placing it on the driveway, just off
the street to which it connects. I swear I read this somewhere as
standard practice, and it makes sense from a navigation standpoint,
particularly for rural parcels, where a "driveway" can be hundreds
of meters long and not mapped.
San Diego County, CA, USA has a bunch of address data from a SanGIS
import.
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