[OSM-talk-be] Addresses in Belgium

[Sander Deryckere]

Who says that the closest street is in the associatedstreet relation. That
relation has nothing to do with the closest street, only with the
administrative division of houses into streets.

Look at this relation: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1869108

So you end up with checking  in all data anyway.
On 7 Jan 2013 16:37, "Jan-willem De Bleser" <jw at thescrapyard.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Sander Deryckere <sanderd17 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Only queries like "give all the houses of street 'Veldstraat'" are better
> > with that binding. But how often do these queries happen?
>
> I haven't found the time yet to give Jo's proposal proper
> consideration, so I'll respond to that and the rest of your mail
> later. I did want to jump in here, however, just to give you another
> example: navigation software. It is given a building in the form of an
> address, and needs this building's associated street so that it can
> find the route along streets from one to another. True, it does need
> to find the closest point on this way, but that is a far smaller
> search than finding the closest matching way out of all nearby data,
> and even easier if there is a driveway.
>
> - Jw
>
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