[Talk-ca] Which is preferred? Addr:interpolation with a source or adding in actual addresses?

[John Whelan]

I think individual addresses are better but in their absence the 
interpolated ones are better than nothing.

Cheerio John

Hoser AB wrote on 5/23/2023 1:06 PM:
> I mostly map in the Calgary area, and manually add addresses one by 
> one. I find this is particularly important where buildings may have 
> multiple addresses, i.e. where an overall complex is composed of 
> multiple buildings with multiple units, or where a unit or business's 
> address may not be the same as the building it lies within.
>
> For example this building 
> (https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/213878776#map=19/51.04573/-114.07918) 
> with an overall address of 805 - 8 Ave SW has a bagel shop in it 
> (https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/10239097762#map=19/51.04570/-114.07902) 
> with the address 809 - 7 Street SW. Having address interpolations 
> along 7 Street is kind of pointless and silly, as the only addresses 
> along that side of the street are contained within that one building 
> anyway.
>
> Generally in Calgary address interpolations aren't typically on the 
> map in the first place, but where I have seen them, e.g. in the hamlet 
> of Bragg Creek 
> (https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/50.9514/-114.5631), I have 
> deleted the interpolations as I've added the buildings to the map. 
> (And in the case of Bragg Creek, many if not most of the interpolated 
> addresses were incorrect to begin with; either backwards or on the 
> wrong side of the road.)
>
> If the accuracy of the Bragg Creek interpolations is representative of 
> Canvec interpolations overall, I would suggest we don't keep them...
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, May 23, 2023, Pierre-Léo Bourbonnais <leo at leograph.com 
> <mailto:leo at leograph.com>> wrote:
>
>     Nous (la Chaire Mobilité: username osm: ChaireMobiliteKaligrafy),
>     ajoutons manuellement les adresses précises en utilisant des
>     sources offficielles, mais cela représente un travail de longue
>     haleine pour véiter les erreurs ou les doublons.
>     Il ne faut surtout pas importer les addresses en mode automatique,
>     car cela va créer des nombreux doublons et il y a plusieurs
>     données erronnées dans les sources officielles, qu’il faut
>     corriger, ou au moins atténuer.
>
>     Habituellement, quand un secteur est complété dans OSM avec toutes
>     ses adresses ajoutées manuellement à chaque porte, on peut alors
>     supprimer les interpolations d’adresses, qui ne servent plus dans
>     ce cas.
>
>
>     EN:
>
>     We (Chaire Mobilité: username osm: ChaireMobiliteKaligrafy), add
>     precise addresses using official sources manually, but this
>     represents a long process to avoid errors or duplicates.
>     It is important not to import the addresses in batch, because this
>     will create many duplicates and there are several erroneous data
>     in the official sources, which must be corrected, or at least
>     mitigated.
>
>     Usually, when a neighbourhood is completed in OSM with all its
>     addresses manually added to each entrance, then the address
>     interpolations can be removed, which are no longer useful in this
>     case.
>
>>     On May 23, 2023, at 8:12 AM, Nextonem via Talk-ca
>>     <talk-ca at openstreetmap.org <mailto:talk-ca at openstreetmap.org>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     *EN*
>>     Hi,
>>
>>     here in Montreal, most of the addresses are mapped with
>>     addr:interpolation, but its with a source a lot of the times, so
>>     i was wondering if it would be worth it to add the actual address
>>     for places that have their buildings mapped and then remove the
>>     addr:interpolation that exists?
>>
>>
>>     *FR (utilisant DeepL)*
>>
>>     Bonjour,
>>
>>     Ici à Montréal, la plupart des adresses sont cartographiées avec
>>     addr:interpolation, mais avec une source la plupart du temps,
>>     donc je me demandais si cela valait la peine d'ajouter l'adresse
>>     réelle pour les endroits qui ont leurs bâtiments cartographiés et
>>     ensuite d'enlever l'addr:interpolation qui existe?
>
>
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