Hi Bimal The problem you've raised is something I have faced almost everywhere I work. As the paper that you cited<http://www.upu.int/fileadmin/documentsFiles/activities/addressingAssistance/paperAddressingAddressingTheWorldAnAddressForEveryoneEn.pdf> and the LA Times Article <http://articles.latimes.com/2000/aug/01/news/mn-62534> noted on the wiki suggests, the absence of systematic street addressing poses a major challenge for certain government and business functions; precisely why organizations like the World Bank have invested so much in systematic addressing efforts<http://siteresources.worldbank.org/CMUDLP/Resources/461753-1160058503655/Street_Addressing_Manual.pdf>. That said, you're right... this is way too slow and unreliable for most people to wait on it.
The way that we always end up having to face this is by mapping key POIs that are important for local map orientation or direction giving. This can be difficult because of classifications and visibility of those icons for less traditional POIs (eg things like near 'the mango tree' that might no longer physically exist, or a housing compound no longer inhabited by the person with whose name it is associated). Once we have a sufficiently high density of these POIs on a map, it becomes significantly more usable for localized orientation. These locally important POIs also appear to be how proprietary providers like Google Maps handles directions for poorly addressed parts of the world as well. If anyone has more on how they do it, I'd be very keen to read about it. >From there we built a BETA of something presently called CaerusGEO<http://www.caerusgeo.com> which allows us to place gridsquares over OSM and generate an Atlas from it. This gives us the ability to place manageable, easy to orient paper maps in the hands of those institutions (government, ngo, business) that want to collect data with a higher order of precision. It is orders of magnitude more precision than how data is presently collected, but also significantly less precise than were street addressing available. A sample use case for this solution might be crime mapping. Police officer or NGO uses 'social POIs' to orient on a map (paper or mobile) where streets are traced but lack names and addresses. They mark an 'X' and incident number where the event occurred by orienting off of the POIs that have been placed there, then they upload to view heat maps and other visualizations on top of OSM through the system. This would likely be an extremely poor solution for mail handling, however, where the level of fidelity required must be extremely precise rather than approximated. So again, I think it depends upon the precise problem set that one is trying to overcome in the absence of addresses and the level of acceptable fidelity for that use case. Did you have a specific use case in mind? Or is your aim to develop a more holistic alternative to street addressing entirely? Matt On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 7:21 AM, bibekshres...@gmail.com < bibekshres...@gmail.com> wrote: > The mail raises an interesting issue. For developing nations like Nepal, > waiting for local administration to start mapping and give names to the > streets take quite a long time. > > I would be interested to know if someone has an alternative solution that > is modern enough (digital) independent of local administration and easier > to do with a click of a button - online. > > -- > Bibek Shrestha > bibekshrestha at gmail dot com > Twitter: http://twitter.com/bibstha > "You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.", Eames to > Arthur, Inception 2010 > > > On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Ben Abelshausen < > ben.abelshau...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: >> >>> Use OSM as a base for a local campaign ... >> >> >> That is something that worked very will in Yaoundé, Cameroon. Showing the >> OSM-tools, maps, OsmAnd can really get things going! In Cameroon people >> were very impressed with what was possible with little resources using OSM! >> >> This could be a very good way for you to start... >> >> Met vriendelijke groeten, >> Best regards, >> >> Ben Abelshausen >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > -- Matthew R. McNabb -Principal Caerus Associates LLC ---------------------------------------- Main (US): +1 703.649.5300 Mobile (US): +1 202.560.0946 Mobile (UK): +44 (0)797.999.7467 Mobile (Liberia): +231 (0)880533042 Skype: mmcnabb.caerus
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