[Talk-ca] Address interpolation

john whelan jwhelan0112 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 23 19:24:54 GMT 2011


Have a look at the source, CANVEC includes the address information for a
number of provinces which correspond to their roads.  Generally speaking
their roads are fairly accurate.

Cheerio John

On 23 February 2011 12:51, James Ewen <ve6srv at gmail.com> wrote:

> What's the procedure when making corrections to roads that have
> associated address interpolation ways?
>
> From what I see, address interpolation ways are just simply ways
> sitting beside the road, and have to real relation to the road besides
> proximity.
>
> If a road gets moved to a new location, does one create new parallel
> ways and tag them as address interpolation ways? What's the standard
> offset from the roadway?
>
> Where does one get address numbering information from? For some places
> it can be easy, where you start at 1, and work your way up, but what
> might the upper limit be? Guessing doesn't work, as can be seen in the
> NavTeq and TeleAtlas databases that have my house number around 63 or
> so, yet there are only 40 houses on my street, with the last house
> being #40. Where there are houses, one can simply read the number off
> the house if it is posted, but in areas where no houses yet exist, one
> might have to resort to looking at another source document.
>
> James
> VE6SRV
>
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