Hi Peter, I understand that OSM as a whole does not define the address system. But I am taking help from our community members to find out about organizations or professionals or start ups who are working on this problem so that I can contact them to learn more about the solution to this problem.
Cheers! Bimal On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Peter Wendorff <wendo...@uni-paderborn.de>wrote: > Hi Bimal, > > I'm still not sure what you search for. > As far as I know and as far as I understand the problem you refer to, > OSM as a whole is not searching for solutions. > > OSM is not defining addresses, but collecting addresses with their > correspondent location. > For some countries, everywhere where addresses with some kind of > "numbering" scheme exists that works fine, in many others this fails, > due to missing street names, missing house number organizations and so on. > In some countries the people use different "addressing schemes" like > reference points, and for reference points there has been a discussion > on the tagging-mailinglist before - started on 20th of March 2012 by > Felix Delattre. > > So IMHO OSM may collect addresses even in different formats, if that > seems reasonable, but it cannot "invent" "standardized" addresses for > countries where these don't exist. > > regards > Peter > > Am 04.09.2013 10:57, schrieb bimal maharjan: > > Hi All, > > > > I think my last email was not clear. > > > > I am from Nepal and we do not have standard address system (let alone > > online) .I want to know how this problem can be solved and how the same > > problem has been solved in other developing countries. Perhaps some must > be > > working for it. > > > > I am researching to find out about the organizations or professionals or > > start ups who are working to solve the problem of "no standard and > > accessible address system" in the developing countries. > > > > While trying to find out who is trying to solve this problem, I found > the > > organization named *Universal Post Union*, which is working on an > > initiative "*"Adressing the world, an address for > > everyone"< > http://www.upu.int/fileadmin/documentsFiles/activities/addressingAssistance/paperAddressingAddressingTheWorldAnAddressForEveryoneEn.pdf > > > > * . > > > > I was wondering somebody from the openstreetmap community must be > involved > > or know about the ways to solve the problem. If somebody knows and have > > innovative solutions for this then please share. > > > > Cheers! > > Bimal > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:34 PM, bimal maharjan <hakubi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> Hi All, > >> > >> The developing countries have the address problem. > >> > >> I read about the initiative called "address for everyone". Below is the > >> link. > >> > >> > http://www.upu.int/fileadmin/documentsFiles/activities/addressingAssistance/paperAddressingAddressingTheWorldAnAddressForEveryoneEn.pdf > >> > >> I want to know whether there are any professionals or start ups or > >> development agencies working to solve this problem. > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Cheers! > >> Bimal > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > talk mailing list > > talk@openstreetmap.org > > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- Cheers! Bimal
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