On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:29:14 -0500, Anthony <o...@inbox.org> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Andy Allan <gravityst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> It's a fairly well established convention that in OSM it's the >> houses/plots, not the road centrelines, that are addressed. > > But that doesn't always reflect reality. The reality, at least in > many parts of the world, is that the streets are given blocks of > potential addresses, and the houses/plots/whatever are given actual > addresses from those potential address blocks.
So your point being? These blocks can be interpolation-ways next to the way and if you like relations you can have both grouped in an associatedStreet-relation. >> I'd say it's better to approximate the gap between the road and the >> houses >> (10m?) than to just put it on the centreline due to that being easier. > > First of all, how would you approximate the gap? You mean by hand? 10m along the normal of the road. > Secondly, what if the houses aren't yet there? Tiger address data > represents *potential* address blocks, not *actual* address blocks. > There may or may not be any actual houses along those roads. Then we have to assume it's there until a mapper who can actually look for houses can correct this. That's the best we can do. Marcus _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
