[Talk-ca] address:block - brain storming

[Sam Vekemans]

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On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Sam
> Vekemans<acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Richard, & cc:talk-ca,
> >
> > As i was comparing our 'superior quality map' i can show you an example
> of
> > address:block you can see on the Google maps you can see Empress Avenue
> and
> > the '2500' and also Shawnigan Lake Road / Cobble Hill road '3540' &
> > '3440'.   I know from the canvec data (not used roads) it has the
> > address:range, this info could be extrapolated and used as the
> address:block
> > tag with  rounding.   Any ideas on how OSM can render that?  (this is
> > something that can be manually entered when navigating the roads as it's
> on
> > the streetsigns over here.
> >
> > Talk-ca list, is it the same in your town?
>
> Dear Sam,
>
> "With rounding" ?!?!?!  Why round the numbers off?  Put the correct
> data into the database. Block face addressing appears to be solved.
> How to convert / import is the question.
>
> In the middle of this link, "Lessingstraße" shows an excellent example
> of how to display first and last addresses for left and right of a
> way.
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.00636&lon=8.3845&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF
>
> "X-hundred block" harks back nicely to old episodes of _Adam-12_ but
> seems too-unlikely an abstraction to be usable across Canada.
>
>
Ok, forget the rounding part (2 thoughts in 1 paragreph, sorry)
Lets assume it's manual regular city mapping.

I dont know that Adam-12 is.  can you explain please?
So is there a reason why the hundreds block is NOT rendered currently in
OSM, like Google and MapART and many other maps do use this method?

.... i just checked the wiki and i dont see that tag, nor can i find
reference to using / not using it.

Cheers,
Sam



> If you don't like the way the current rendering scheme shows
> addresses, that is another discussion entirely.  You can always choose
> to render your maps as you please.  But taking good data, breaking it,
> then putting it in the database does not sound like a good idea to me.
>
> Best regards,
> Richard
>
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