Karl Newman wrote: >Sent: 14 October 2008 4:59 PM >To: Frederik Ramm >Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Yet another street number scheme > >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=13.718639663 >339111&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. >
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). Cheers Andy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
