[OSM-talk-be] Address stats in Belgium

[Glenn Plas]

On 04/16/2013 05:41 AM, Marc Gemis wrote:
> I use most of these plugins. But recently I started using them less, 
> because now I  convert my GPX waypoints to OSM data points automatically.
>
> The only thing I do not do is repeating the postal code over and over, 
> but since you insist, I'll do that from now on. :-)
>
> Can you look at e.g. 
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.16279363632202&lon=4.425258636474609&zoom=16 
> an area I mapped this winter. Please let me know if you think it can 
> be improved. Yes, the city and the postal code are only in the relation.

Some very nice work there, pretty detailed.  Looks good on the map. That 
has been a lot of work by the looks of it.   I'm impressed ....  haven't 
checked with josm yet, but I will.  I am going to dig deeper into the 
Nominatim scene concerning geocoding (=what is best for both map and 
other data use) , I'll come back on this.   For me, the plugin's make me 
do it, since it's easy.  I didn't do all the detailed work before 
knowing them.   I would not recommend doing this manually per building 
without the things I mentioned (The mapcss helps the most).
>
> Yes, I know I should use building=house more consistently. Yes, I know 
> I could add sidewalk, lit, parking lane tags as I did (already 
> partially) in 
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.134501695632935&lon=4.385626316070557&zoom=16

You mean building=yes (I don't use house, don't think it was 'official').
What I do for sure is mark building=garages and sheds and I remove all 
addr:* tags from them, as they clutter searching for an address.  They 
make the data worse, and then others think it's an unnumbered building 
and start inventing numbers (seen that here!) , while all that lives in 
there are cars or lawnmowers.

>
> Let me know if you think the data can be improved, as I'm willing to 
> improve my tagging habits.
>
Cool!   The only suggestion I can make is have an extra window in the 
browser open on the AGIV site, I found out I put my tags on the wrong 
side in a street using it.   A very small one, I had the odd/even sides 
all wrong.   There you can verify if what you enter makes sense,  you 
just can't copy it over without some live visit -ever- as they are 
incomplete and wrong sometimes, and also don't always know about sub 
addresses (100b 110/1 etc).

Glenn