On 3 Oct 2009, at 17:42, Mike N. wrote: > > It needs to follow the road way to some extent, but it might be > possible > to simplify by reducing node count so that it doesn't exactly follow > the > road. In the samples I have seen, house placement is much > different than > the road path when there is a curve. >
You might find that it is faster and easier to get lots of people to go out there and collect the information, than to try and find a way to import the addressing. It is also more fun from a community perspective and you might find that the end result is better. > A final note, I don't know how much address data already exists in > OSM, If you want to see where there is addressing take a look at the green on this map rending. http://matt.sandbox.cloudmade.com/?lat=37.779399&lng=-122.424774&zoom=11&layer=3 Shaun _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
