On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 6:19 AM, Tod Fitch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tod@fitchdesign.com" target="_blank">tod@fitchdesign.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">In the case I am looking at now there is no street number for the campground. At least there is no sign indicating one nor have I seen a street number on an any map. So I guess that addr:housenumber might work. But I imagine that there are campgrounds that actually have an street number assigned to the whole complex, so overloading addr:housenumber would not work.</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Common cases for campgrounds include:</div><div>1) The roads have names, but they exist only in a database somewhere, the actual roads are not signed or known by those names.</div><div>2) The roads developed over time and were never planned or named, and may in fact shift based on season.</div>
<div>3) All the roads are collectively known by some name (e.g. "South fork campground loop").</div><div>4) The sites are walk-in, far from a road.</div><div><br></div><div>---</div><div><div>I think the EMS/911 use case is just as good as the mailman analogy.</div>
<div>If you wrote what you mapped on a slip of paper describing an emergency, could the EMS crew get there without confusion?</div></div><div><br></div><div>I think rendering is the least important consideration: if there is sufficient mapping of any particular style, the rendering will follow starting with the maps most oriented towards camping (open cycle map, for example, might be an early adopter).</div>
<div><br></div><div>--</div><div>But that said addr:housenumber has a certain elegance. You can imagine entering that into a generic OSM routing engine and getting a sensible result (directions to that particular campsite).</div>
<div><br></div><div>You're not really overloading addr:housenumber in the case the campground has postal address. The camp itself exists on a road. The camp sites then relate to the camp:</div><div><br></div><div>name=Camp Hypothetical</div>
<div>addr:housenumber=153</div><div>addr:street=Hypothetical Street</div><div>website=*</div><div><br></div><div>addr:housenumber=153</div><div>addr:street=Camp Hypothetical</div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">group_only=yes</font></div>
<div><br></div><div>Thus all campgrounds can use <i>addr:housenumber</i> for the space number.</div></div>