[Routing] house numbers

[Nic Roets]

Prof. Jetzke,

To me, a address has a legal meaning ("domicile"). If a legal address is on
a street A, it does not mean that the main entrance (or any entrance
whatsoever) is located on street A.

Fortunately, in the vast majority of cases, you can generate good routing
instructions by geocoding that address (into coordinates) and route to the
routable OSM edge with the smallest orthogonal distance to those
coordinates.

We can discuss some of the problem cases if you give us examples.

Regards,
Nic


On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Siegfried Jetzke <s.jetzke at goodsync.de>
wrote:

>  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
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>
>  *Prof. Dr. Siegfried Jetzke*
>
>  *goodSync* GmbH
> Konzepte und Lösungen für eine effiziente Logistik
>  Brinkstraße 4b
> 38159 Vechelde
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Regards,
Nic
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