[Talk-ca] address:block - brain storming

[Sam Vekemans]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Pierre-Luc Beaudoin <pierre-luc at pierlux.com
> wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 10:58 -0700, Sam Vekemans wrote:
> > Talk-ca list, is it the same in your town?
>
> Yes Google has this "block" address on the map for Montréal too, but as
> you can see here:
>
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.cl/comparacion/index.html?mt0=googlemap&mt1=mapnik&lon=-73.56978&lat=45.5129596&z=18
>
> their data is shit compared to what I found on site (and entered in
> OpenStreetMap).
>
> We should only enter actual data in OpenStreetMap.  It should be the
> render's job to make it pretty (by printing such nice numbers, rounded
> or not).
>

Yeh-buts .... eat carrots ... i know :)

This address 'block' information can be found on Street signs.  So it IS
actual map data...
Yes, the way OSM currently has it is fine, AND this could be rendered ..'in
addition too'.  As shaded, a little larger than the numbers, and in the
middle of the block.
,,, and yes i know i can enter the address:block info for a few streets
around here, and make my own stylesheet for it.... (a little learning curve,
but i know it's possable) :-)

.. so why not?  ... or is it that the community just 'doesn't like it' and
an unspoken 'hushhhhh falls over the croud when those forbidden words are
spoken'? .... just as someone saying "Why cant i trace Google Maps?',,
and the veins pop out... lol :) (FYI i'm joking, Richard)... :-)

Eithor way, im cool with it, just like an answer if one is found.
Otherwise, i'll make a wiki-proposal.  .... but not now...

Cheers,
Sam


>
> Pierre-Luc
>
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