[OSM-talk-be] address cleanup

[Georges De Gruyter]

To complicate things even more : the information from the associatedStreet
relation is not shown in the new ID-editor (yet).


2013/5/31 Marc Gemis <marc.gemis at gmail.com>

> The past couple of days, I've been cleaning up quite some addresses where
> I made mistakes. My apologies, I'll try to be more careful in the future.
> And I'll adapt the way I map POIs.
>
> But I also encountered quite a lot of housenumbers where the mapper didn't
> bother to add the street. And now I understand what Glenn was talking about
> a couple of weeks ago.
>
> Look at
> http://osmose.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/?zoom=17&lat=51.00903&lon=4.4241&layers=B0000FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT&item=2060&level=1,2,3
>
> None of those house numbers have a street name. However, somehow, Nomatim
> seems to work out most houses correctly. I assume it takes the street that
> is closest to the house. However for Zepstraat 1, Mechelen, it finds the
> wrong house.
> So I would like to repeat Glenn's statement: please try to add complete
> address information.
>
> It's a small effort to add the streetname together with the housenumber.
> It's great that all those numbers are added, but I'm not sure all clients
> are as smart as Nomatim.
>
> This might also be part of reason that Belgium is scoring bad in the
> osmose tests.
>
> I'll try to correct the situation in that area later. Time to go to bed
> now.
>
> regards
>
> m
>
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