That's an interesting idea, I wonder what else lurks on the web, like postcodes for example?
Steve On Feb 3, 2011, at 11:19 AM, Nic Roets <nro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Steve, > > Another thing that Bing can help us with is determining address ranges > of roads. For example, when you spider the web and find references to > 5, 20 and 48 Lion Street, Pretoria, then it may help the user who is > mapping that street. Perhaps it's a cul de sac and now he doesn't need > to travel all the way down it to see where the range ends. > > A little bit of care will be needed to suppress databases that may be > legally protected. But I can't see any problem if you extract 1 > address per website. > > Regards, > Nic > > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Steve Coast <st...@asklater.com> wrote: >> http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/maps/archive/2011/02/03/automatically-detect-roads-with-bing-aerial-imagery.aspx >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> >> > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
