[Talk-ca] address:block - brain storming

[Sam Vekemans]

So in other words, the preference is to make it more confusing for the
right-brain/left-brain ..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_brain :-)

Ok, i caved...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_numbering#Block_numbers

*Block <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_block> numbers are a system of
assigning numbers based on distance rather than strictly sequentially.
Typically, each block is assigned 100 numbers, such that the building
numbers on that block vary only in the two least significant digits. For
example, in Washington, D.C. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.>,
the block of 7th Street, N.W., between D and E streets, N.W., is designated
as the 400 block, meaning that building numbers on that block are in the
range from 400 to 499 inclusive. It is common to indicate block numbers on
street signs."*


... looking at the house you need to go to, for me it's easier to look at
the house number range, then looking at the exact one when i get to that
block. ... otherwise i speed by

... So maybe when we start rendering individual residential property lines,
that area can be tagged with the house number. ... but zoomed out. .. having
a block number makes it easy for me to know where i am ;-)

... ya, i'll make a wiki page..... but not now :)

Cheers,
Sam


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On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Pierre-Luc Beaudoin <pierre-luc at pierlux.com
> wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 11:46 -0700, Sam Vekemans wrote:
> >
> > This address 'block' information can be found on Street signs.  So it
> > IS actual map data...
> I see your point now... but I think it is more of a styling issue than
> about how the data is in OSM.  The actual door numbers should be entered
> and then the renderer does the job.  Sure you have the info on the
> street name panels, but it happens to be "duplicated" data derived from
> the door numbers :)
>
> > .. 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)... :-)
>
> I don't like it, but that doesn't stop it here. I am not the community,
> we are. :)
>
> Pierre-Luc
>
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