[Talk-GB] Google maps added addresses!

[Simon Poole]

Am 29.12.2020 um 11:18 schrieb George Honeywood:
> Hi Simon,
>
> What tools do you use for this? In the summer I decided to survey 
> about 400 addresses in Bodmin, and it was a rather painful (and long) 
> morning. I ended up walking down each street two times to get both 
> sides, and spent quite a while dealing with weird/backwards numbering 
> -- or numbers that just weren't there.

Well I typically use Vespucci which has the advantage that you have

- aerial imagery as the background so placing nodes or selecting the 
proper building outline isn't an issue,

- house number prediction. That is you only need to manually correct 
numbers that don't fit, and will automatically take the side of the road 
in to account. So if you can see the numbers on the other side you just 
need to walk down the street once.

See 
http://vespucci.io/help/en/Introduction/#efficiently-adding-addresses 
and http://vespucci.io/help/en/Advanced%20preferences/#address-tags

Simon

>
> This was using StreetComplete after adding geometries using JOSM, and 
> I fear that it would've been much harder to place the addresses 
> without them.
>
> Cheers,
> George Honeywood
>
> On Tue, 29 Dec 2020, at 8:28 AM, Simon Poole wrote:
>>
>> At the danger of pointing out the blatantly obvious: you can easily 
>> survey and add addresses as stand alone nodes without adding 
>> buildings before.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Simon
>>
>> Am 28.12.2020 um 17:21 schrieb Rob Nickerson:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>> *Rob*
>>>
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