On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Jonathan Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frederik Ramm wrote: > > A completely different (and quite OSM-like!) option is dropping all this > > complex logic, left-right-blah tagging, number schemes, relations and > > all, and just put simple nodes: "This is B street number 25". This > > brings redundancy, typos, and all - but we're used to that. It would be > > *extremely* easy to edit, and renderers or routers would have to do a > > little bit of processing to work with the data. Not too hard probably. > > I think this scheme works best, because we can carry it forward to > houses being areas tagged 'building=...' -- there's an issue with > semi-detached and terraced houses to be worked out (1 way per building > vs. 1 way per residence), but that's probably some way off needing to be > solved.
The biggest problem with this is that it's essentially impossible to convert existing house number data to this format. We have for NL complete house number data in the form of: left/right start/end scheme. Converting this to what you suggest is, well, essentially impossible. So maybe we should use both. The rest of the GIS world works fine on left/right start/end scheme, I don't know why we need to do anything else. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
