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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Martin,<br>
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It is not necessary to put down a number on each building. It is
possible to use <i>addr:interpolation</i> (<i>odd, even</i>, or <i>all</i>).<br>
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We put down a number on the first building, then on the last,
connect them in JOSM, and add <i>addr:interpolation: all </i>.
For example here: <a href="http://osm.org/go/0CFn0AZ_d--?m=">http://osm.org/go/0CFn0AZ_d--?m=</a>
. It is also very useful on a street with many small houses. And
it is searchable. For example if there is number 15 and number 27
on the map for a street, and they are connected with <i>addr:interpolation:
odd, </i>and<i> </i>if one searches number 21, the map will
show the number 21 all right.<br>
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Then, there is another approach. We first map addressable large
building, where a lot of people live or work. Kind of of going
after the low-hanging fruit.<br>
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brgds<br>
Oleksiy<br>
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On 22.10.2014 13:37, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2014-10-22 12:15 GMT+02:00 Steve
Coast <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div id=":6sr" class="" style="overflow:hidden">Together,
we could do this in 6-12 months and finish addressing in
1-3 years. At that point we wouldn’t have just made the
world slightly better, we would have put a big dent in
the universe. Nobody would use a closed map ever again,
and it would be people like you that made it happen.<br>
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I agree with you that addressing is very important for a lot
of commercial (and non-commercial) map users. What I don't
understand is how a paid board would help us map more
addresses. Unfortunately mapping addresses is typically less
fun than going to the video arcade. Looking at the current
figures we are not doing too bad. Currently there are 130
Million buildings in OSM and 46 Million housenumbers. I don't
know exactly how many buildings there are in the world, and
how many of them don't have addresses, but I guess it will be
at least 1 Billion addresses in the world, probably more.
According to the stats page we have roughly 25.000 active
contributors a month ( <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Stats#Contributor_Stats">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Stats#Contributor_Stats</a>
). To get an address on all currently mapped buildings in
three years time, (84M to go), every active contributor would
have to add 93 addresses a month - constantly. To get 1
Billion addresses mapped by 25.000 contributors in 3 yrs, it
would be 1111 housenumbers a month per active contributor. Are
we planning to pay the mappers as well? The only solution
seems to get more contributors mapping, and have them insert
addresses.<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">cheers,<br>
Martin<br>
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