SteveC <steve <at> asklater.com> writes: >>For addressing, I guess it is usually sufficient to have a street name - the >>exact addr:housenumber stuff is not needed I assume? > >Imagine a country where many streets are miles and miles long. Then yes, it >matters as you could be 10 miles out
Ah, yes. So if we wanted to aim for a geocoding accuracy of one kilometre as a minimum, then any road longer than one kilometre needs house numbers. >>Turn restrictions are also hard to survey manually. >>They might possibly be suggested from analysis of GPS traces, >>provided we have a large number of traces for an area and they are clearly >>tagged to show which ones are for travelling by car. This is one reason why a >>standard tagging scheme for GPS traces is needed. > >You can expose it with things like routing. I don't understand what you mean - do you mean that OSM-based routing apps could submit a trace back to the server as you drive along? -- Ed Avis <e...@waniasset.com> _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
