Hi Jochen, Thanks for this. When I first posted I had in mind ways with address ranges (I've got the North American public road network file mindset), but we can also have a point address geocoder embedded within PAGC as well, so Prague looks like a good potential solution to our needs.
Dan On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 19:42 +0100, Jochen Topf wrote: > If you need a city with exhaustively mapped addresses have a look at > some of the Czech cities, for instance Prague: > > http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=addresses&lon=14.44067&lat=50.07304&zoom=15&opacity=0.38&overlays=nodes_with_addresses_defined > > It looks like they have a node for every address. > > Jochen > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 09:04:35AM -0800, Dan Putler wrote: > > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Are there any ways with street number ranges in the > > OSM database? > > From: Dan Putler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Jochen Topf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: talk <talk@openstreetmap.org> > > Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:04:35 -0800 > > > > Hi Jochen, > > > > The purpose for my inquiry on this topic was to see if there was an area > > that has been extensively addressed, and could be used for the > > demonstration site we are trying to develop for PAGC. Based on the > > thread, it appears the Karlsruhe is the most extensively addressed area > > at this point, but only a fairly small proportion of it has been > > addressed at this point, too small a proportion to be used for the PAGC > > demonstration site at this moment (this will likely change in the future > > as more of the city is addressed). This was really the upshot of my > > comment about using OSM for geocoding being a work in progress. > > > > As I know you are aware, postal addresses are very messy things, that > > differ from country to country (and even jurisdiction to jurisdiction in > > some cases). As a result, I think you are correct that a one size fits > > all tagging scheme will never be developed (or would even be desirable). > > Having said this, from a data user point of view, keeping the number of > > different schemes to the minimal acceptable number really makes life > > easier. > > > > Dan > > > > On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 11:52 +0100, Jochen Topf wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 09:56:53AM -0800, Dan Putler wrote: > > > > house number addressing in OSM, it was very useful. Given the related, > > > > and very active, "addressing" thread, it sounds like several issues need > > > > to be ironed out before there is a "final" OSM addressing scheme. From a > > > > > > I never expect there to be one final addressing scheme. The Karlsruhe > > > scheme was intended as: We start here in Karlsruhe with something that > > > might work for us. If it also works for you thats fine, if not maybe you > > > can amend it, if it still doesn't fit, come up with something entirely > > > new. So far the scheme has seen some amendments and has more than 900 > > > users who have used it. We'll see where it goes. > > > > > > > practical point of view, it should be possible to do street intersection > > > > geocoding using OSM data as it currently exists, but the use of OSM data > > > > for other forms of geocoding is a work in progress. > > > > > > What exactly do you want to do that doesn't work yet? > > > > > > Jochen > > -- > > Dan Putler > > Sauder School of Business > > University of British Columbia > > > > > -- Dan Putler Sauder School of Business University of British Columbia _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
