Have there been any attempts or discussion in the past about using the OSM as an address geocoding dataset, or otherwise storing address range information all up ins?<br><br>I didn't realize you could tag segments. Sometimes segment address ranges would have to be interpolated but this is doable.
<br><br>-B<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/13/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robert (Jamie) Munro</b> <<a href="mailto:rjmunro@arjam.net">rjmunro@arjam.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>Dave Hansen wrote:<br>> On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 14:27 -0700, Brandon Martin-Anderson wrote:<br>>> Further, to use the OSM as a dataset of address geocoding each segment
<br>>> needs to be a separate way with it's own address range(s). You could<br>>> store address range information in a node, but you'd have to keep it<br>>> in the node _with respect to_ the adjacent edge.
<br>><br>> Why is this? A node doesn't have an address _range_, it just has an<br>> pair of address, one the north/south streets and one for east/west,<br>> right?<br><br>Why not tag OSM segments with the addresses that they contain. If you
<br>don't have the full address data in Tiger for individual segments, you<br>could just guess by interpolating where the addresses are likely to be.<br><br>Robert (Jamie) Munro<br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>Version: GnuPG
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