On Tuesday 14 October 2008 14:17:43 Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: > Karl Newman wrote: > >That's not really true, because there are devices (such as Garmin GPS > >receivers) on which we would like to use OSM data, which need address > >numbers in a compact format with interpolation rules. Trying to reverse- > >engineer the scheme (odd, even, both, etc.) from single nodes that aren't > >even part of the way is nigh-impossible, or at the least, wastefully > >compute-intesive and error-prone. > > However, houses are not part of the road network, so the house number node > should not be part of the highway, that would be tagging for the Garmin or > whatever. The house numbers need to go on the houses (or the object > representing them). That might be so in some places. In my country, the numbers belong to the street, and buildings and other things are associated to the street. It's very common for us to say something is at "Sesame Street 2100" to indicate a block side (is there an english word for 'block side'?). The only reason a house has an address Sesame Street 2142 is because it's located in the Sesame Street 2100 block. That's why my scheme is so focused in Argentina's system, no system will cover all possibilities.
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