On 16/10/08 18:26, Karl Newman wrote: > There is nothing to associate > the node to the street other than MAYBE the name, which is pretty poor > for a relational data model. It could be misspelled or linked to the > wrong street with a similar name or even just the wrong section of the > street. Also, consider the case where a road makes a tight U-turn, and > the address node is placed somewhere in the middle. It's entirely > possible (in fact, I can guarantee it will happen somewhere in the > world) that the the node will be associated with the wrong portion of > the street.
The Karlsruhe schema has an optional spec for using relations to match buildings with the street: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/House_numbers/Karlsruhe_Schema#Case:_Relations_.28easy_for_computers.2C_difficult_for_humans.29 Rory _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
