<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Am Mi., 6. Nov. 2019 um 09:17 Uhr schrieb Oleksiy Muzalyev <<a href="mailto:oleksiy.muzalyev@bluewin.ch">oleksiy.muzalyev@bluewin.ch</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On the main <a href="http://osm.org" target="_blank">osm.org</a> site one can
right-click on a building and select "Show address" or "Add a note
here" . What if a new type of a note is introduced, a structured
address note?</div>
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<div>The structured address note entry form
will consist of several input fields:</div>
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<div>Building number: ...</div>
<div>Street (avenue): ...</div>
<div>Post index (zip code, postal code): ...</div>
<div>City (town, village): ...</div>
<div>Region (State, Canton, Department): ...<br>
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<div>Country: ...</div>
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<div>It could also include a captcha to
prevent mass automated entries.</div>
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<div>Usually people do know very well
addresses of buildings in which they live, work, or which they
visit. This way they will know that the OSM map is interested to
map the correct postal address, since there is this readily
available structured address entry form. So they can add an
address without learning how to use a complex map editor.<br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I also believe it would be very benificial to call explicitly for address contributions from unregistered users of the map. I am seeing a lot of notes created by anonymous users, and providing a formalized way for address entry would likely make people more frequently provide this kind of information. If the form is structured, it could also be converted to actual osm data more quickly by mappers (i.e. this assumes that those anonymously contributed addresses would still have to be individually reviewed by mappers).</div><div><br></div><div>In order to get good address coverage, provided we prefer local knowledge over imported data, we must increase the contributor base. Notes have proven to be able to provide useful information from people who are reluctant to register.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Martin<br></div></div>