[Talk-ca] Address ranges

[Richard Weait]

On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 12:02 -0400, Steve Singer wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 21 Mar 2009, Richard Weait wrote:
[ ... ]
> > This does triple the db size (node and way count) for each road with
> > address info.  But it's just Canadian road data, it's not like we're
> > tripling the size of the US data....
> 
> Tripling the number of nodes+ways in the DB isn't something we want to do 
> lightly.  

Agreed.  Not lightly.  I see the address data as worthwhile and consider
Karlsruhe a wonderful example of some of the very best of OSM.  How much
data are we talking about in the grand scheme of things?  Canadian road
data +200%, Canadian data overall +100, all of it compared to planet,
perhaps +5%.  So I see it as a relatively big deal for us, not so much
on the scale of all of OSM.  

Just in case, I've asked the OSM Foundation if Canada would be making
too much of a dent in project growth based in this addressing data.  I
expect that we'll be fine.  It's great data and belongs in OSM.  

[ ... ]
> > 
> > Wonderful news that you are looking at this.
> 
> I haven't yet decided what I'll work on next, it might be this, or it might be 
> trying to match up roadnames from statscan.

That, my friend, sounds like win:win for Canadian data!  

Best regards,
Richard