[OSM-dev] dropping segments

[Shaun McDonald]

On 27 Jul 2007, at 23:30, Alex Mauer wrote:

> Dirk-Lüder Kreie wrote:
>> For my tastes that's a bit too vulnerable to late inserted nodes,
>> besides if you put pivotal adresses on nodes you can average the  
>> others
>> between nodes. (Just like you now average addresses over the  
>> length of a
>> segment), just with the added feature that you don't have to worry  
>> about
>> inserted nodes, and not too much about deleted ones either.
>
> A couple of problems with putting the addresses on nodes: The nodes
> can't be on intersections, and divided highways as separate ways get
> even uglier.  Personally I don't care much about address  
> information on
> the maps (I have seen very few paper maps with address information,  
> for
> one thing)... also, putting address info on segments is nearly as ugly
> as putting it on nodes, and I'm sure those who actually *do* care  
> about
> getting address info in, can go about solving the problems with
> address-nodes as easily as they can with address-segments.
>

Why not start drawing the outline for each house, and then numbering  
the area?

Of course this will probably only really be feasible for high zoom  
and high zoom satallite imagary areas.

Shaun