[Talk-ca] Advice on Addressing

[Paul Norman]

Individual addresses are always preferable to interpolation lines,
interpolation lines are just an approximation so if you have all the
addresses in a block you shouldn't also have interpolation lines as the
latter duplicates the former.

 

As for how to tag the addresses, if they're buildings with only one address
I prefer put the addresses on the buildings. For more complicated situations
with multiple addresses per building you'll often end up with points for
addresses, and these points often also have shop information.

 

 

From: Connors, Bernie (SNB) [mailto:Bernie.Connors at snb.ca] 
Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 6:48 AM
To: talk-ca at openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Talk-ca] Advice on Addressing

 

Hello,

 

                With respect to Nominatim and OSM routing applications is
there are better way to add address data to OSM?  I have started adding some
address data in my neighborhood but I am wondering if tagging buildings with
an address is better or worse than digitizing address interpolation lines?

 

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.90249493718147
<http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.90249493718147&lon=-66.69308423995972&
zoom=18> &lon=-66.69308423995972&zoom=18

 

Thanks,

Bernie

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