On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> <snip> As for the efficiency in storage, I suggest you take the long-term view: > I am 100% sure that at some point in the future, OSM will have at least > one node for every house, more likely a building outline for every > house. Look at this if you don't believe me: > > > http://informationfreeway.org/?lat=51.03267406093207&lon=13.718639663339111&zoom=15&layers=B0000F000F > > At this point it will be trivial (easy to edit, easy to handle, and > requiring little extra storage) to simply add a house number tag to > every one of these buildings. Any sort of complex relations for roads > with interpolation rules for house numbers will then simply be > unnecessary. 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. Karl
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