[Routing] house numbers

Marcus Wolschon Marcus at Wolschon.biz
Tue Jun 24 15:44:27 UTC 2014


So what's the issue?
That's way more accurate and I suspect you are able to determine what 
side of a line a coordinate is on and to do a linear
interpolation between two such coordinates.


Am 24.06.14 16:29, schrieb Shaun McDonald:
> I think he means that most houses are now put in individually (often 
> on the buildings) rather than using the interpolation method of 
> storing house numbers in the OSM data. The nearest street which has 
> the same name as the addr:street is the line that you would be looking 
> for.
>
> Shaun
>
> On 24 Jun 2014, at 15:20, Marcus Wolschon <Marcus at Wolschon.biz 
> <mailto:Marcus at Wolschon.biz>> wrote:
>
>>
>> Why would interpolation no longer be supported?
>> Supported by whom?
>>
>>
>> Am 24.06.14 15:53, schrieb Siegfried Jetzke:
>>> Dear members,
>>>
>>> I'm new to this list and don't know wether my question already has 
>>> been discussed several times or not. If yes, please send me some 
>>> link to the place where I can find it.
>>>
>>> I do have an academic and commercial background and I'm working on 
>>> route planing. In former projects I used commercial data, e.g. those 
>>> from teleatlas.
>>> For a new project that started some time ago, I want to see wether 
>>> we can use OSM.
>>> My question is the following: I get an address, like 38159 Vechelde, 
>>> Brinkstr. 4b. I consider each street as a list of road elements and 
>>> each road element as a pair of two edges, one left and one right edge.
>>>
>>> To use this address within my application I do need to know the edge 
>>> to which this address belongs. It would be "nice" to know 
>>> approximately the distance of this address from one of the nodes, 
>>> defining the edge. I'm not interested in the coordinates of the address.
>>>
>>> I found that "interpolation" gives exactly the information I need 
>>> but that this will not longer be supported.
>>>
>>> Can anyone give me some hint how to find the edge belonging to one 
>>> address?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>>
>>> Siegfried
>>> -- 
>>>
>>> *Prof. Dr. Siegfried Jetzke*
>>>
>>> *good/S/ync* GmbH
>>> Konzepte und Lösungen für eine effiziente Logistik
>>> Brinkstraße 4b
>>> 38159 Vechelde
>>>
>>> Telefon : 	+49 5300 9019211
>>> Fax : 	+49 5300 9019209
>>> e-mail : 	s.jetzke at goodsync.de
>>> URL : 	www.goodsync.de
>>>
>>>
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