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+++1 to mapping addresses as standalone nodes!<br>
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While it is an alternative accepted style to put them on buildings,
I personally loathe it. A building is a building, an address is an
address. A one-to-one relation is common but not 100%. The address
may not even be logically applicable to a building, examples:
schools (a cluster of buildings on a site), recreation grounds
(perhaps no building at all).<br>
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Dividing a building vertically for the purpose of address in messy.
Yes, there is some logic to the concept of separate living/working
volumes but then that should apply to horizontal division as will,
common in some parts of the world. For me, a semi-detached house is
a semi-detached house and a terrace is a terrace.<br>
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And the worst thing, and my main motivation for writing, is that is
destroys simple 3-D modelling,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Simple_3D_buildings">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Simple_3D_buildings</a> . A
semi-detached house with a hipped roof becomes impossible to model
if two conjoined buildings or even building parts as far as I can
see (?).<br>
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I suggest always modelling addresses as separate nodes placed in a
logical place for navigation.<br>
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A jolly Christmas rant brought to you by Mike. Best wishes to all.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2020-12-29 09:28, Simon Poole wrote:<br>
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<p>At the danger of pointing out the blatantly obvious: you can
easily survey and add addresses as stand alone nodes without
adding buildings before. <br>
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<p>It is quite a fast process and, at least for me, is only
limited by walking speed and getting distracted by other details
which you tend to only see when surveying on foot. It is what we
used to do before aerial imagery was widely available and will
result in fully functional routing. Given how painful correcting
building geometries is I would always prefer an address node
over mapping a building outline from a sub-par source.</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 28.12.2020 um 17:21 schrieb Rob
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<div>Hi all,</div>
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<div>I just spotted that Google Maps has added house numbers
to their map of the UK. They are all over the place - does
anyone recognise the source?</div>
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<div>What can we do to improve coverage of addresses in OSM? I
notice that we have some pretty good aerial imagery now.
Should we see if we can get good building outline from an AI
/ machine learning approach? If the quality is good we can
then use these to help add addresses. For example we can ask
new mappers to add addresses using tools such as
StreetComplete.<br>
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<div>Any thoughts much appreciated. I have a feeling that if
we can come up with a plan we may be able to get some help
from several of the big tech companies now interested in the
UK. It would be better if we were steering this rather than
it happening to us.<br>
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<div>Best wishes,<br>
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