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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Richard Weait <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard@weait.com">richard@weait.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Sam<br>Vekemans<<a href="mailto:acrosscanadatrails@gmail.com">acrosscanadatrails@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Hi Richard, & cc:talk-ca,<br>><br>> As i was comparing our 'superior quality map' i can show you an example of<br>
> address:block you can see on the Google maps you can see Empress Avenue and<br>> the '2500' and also Shawnigan Lake Road / Cobble Hill road '3540' &<br>> '3440'. I know from the canvec data (not used roads) it has the<br>
> address:range, this info could be extrapolated and used as the address:block<br>> tag with rounding. Any ideas on how OSM can render that? (this is<br>> something that can be manually entered when navigating the roads as it's on<br>
> the streetsigns over here.<br>><br>> Talk-ca list, is it the same in your town?<br><br></div>Dear Sam,<br><br>"With rounding" ?!?!?! Why round the numbers off? Put the correct<br>data into the database. Block face addressing appears to be solved.<br>
How to convert / import is the question.<br><br>In the middle of this link, "Lessingstraße" shows an excellent example<br>of how to display first and last addresses for left and right of a<br>way.<br><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.00636&lon=8.3845&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.00636&lon=8.3845&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF</a><br>
<br>"X-hundred block" harks back nicely to old episodes of _Adam-12_ but<br>seems too-unlikely an abstraction to be usable across Canada.<br><br></blockquote>
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<div>Ok, forget the rounding part (2 thoughts in 1 paragreph, sorry)</div>
<div>Lets assume it's manual regular city mapping.</div>
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<div>I dont know that Adam-12 is. can you explain please?</div>
<div>So is there a reason why the hundreds block is NOT rendered currently in OSM, like Google and MapART and many other maps do use this method?</div>
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<div>.... i just checked the wiki and i dont see that tag, nor can i find reference to using / not using it.</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
<div>Sam</div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><span id=""></span>If you don't like the way the current rendering scheme shows<br>addresses, that is another discussion entirely. You can always choose<br>
to render your maps as you please. But taking good data, breaking it,<br>then putting it in the database does not sound like a good idea to me.<br><br>Best regards,<br>Richard<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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