[Talk-GB] Google maps added addresses!

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Could propose the "half" prefix to improve on the problem. For example "side_hipped" roof shape already exists.
Furthermore, terraced buildings aren't one single house. They are multiple, seperated houses (with no access to each other) so mapping them as multiple ways joined together makes sense.
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29 Dec 2020, 10:25 by mike at ayeltd.biz:

> +++1 to mapping addresses as standalone nodes!
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>  While it is an alternative accepted style to put them on buildings,    I personally loathe it. A building is a building, an address is an    address. A one-to-one relation is common but not 100%. The address    may not even be logically applicable to a building, examples:    schools (a cluster of buildings on a site), recreation grounds    (perhaps no building at all).
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>  Dividing a building vertically for the purpose of address in messy.    Yes, there is some logic to the concept of separate living/working    volumes but then that should apply to horizontal division as will,    common in some parts of the world. For me, a semi-detached house is    a semi-detached house and a terrace is a terrace.
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>  And the worst thing, and my main motivation for writing, is that is    destroys simple 3-D modelling, > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Simple_3D_buildings>  . A    semi-detached house with a hipped roof becomes impossible to model    if two conjoined buildings or even building parts as far as I can    see (?).
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>  I suggest always modelling addresses as separate nodes placed in a    logical place for navigation.
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>  A jolly Christmas rant brought to you by Mike. Best wishes to all.
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> On 2020-12-29 09:28, Simon Poole wrote:
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>> At the danger of pointing out the blatantly obvious: you can        easily survey and add addresses as stand alone nodes without        adding buildings before. 
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>> It is quite a fast process and, at least for me, is only        limited by walking speed and getting distracted by other details        which you tend to only see when surveying on foot. It is what we        used to do before aerial imagery was widely available and will        result in fully functional routing. Given how painful correcting        building geometries is I would always prefer an address node        over mapping a building outline from a sub-par source.
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>> Simon
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>> Am 28.12.2020 um 17:21 schrieb Rob        Nickerson:
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>>> Hi all,
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>>> I just spotted that Google Maps has added house numbers            to their map of the UK. They are all over the place - does            anyone recognise the source?
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>>> What can we do to improve coverage of addresses in OSM? I            notice that we have some pretty good aerial imagery now.            Should we see if we can get good building outline from an AI            / machine learning approach? If the quality is good we can            then use these to help add addresses. For example we can ask            new mappers to add addresses using tools such as            StreetComplete.
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>>> Any thoughts much appreciated. I have a feeling that if            we can come up with a plan we may be able to get some help            from several of the big tech companies now interested in the            UK. It would be better if we were steering this rather than            it happening to us.
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>>> Best wishes,
>>> Rob
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