[Talk-us] Addressing Question

[Stellan Lagerstrom]

Mike N. wrote:
> If the goal is to reduce visual clutter in editors, what about when all
> are converted to house numbers?   Do we have to change house numbers to 
> relations to hide them from editors and viewers?   Then it becomes an editor 
> problem to make them accessible to ordinary people who need to enter 
> corrections.   So the editors render them as 'visual clutter' to make them 
> accessible; now we're right back where we started, but with extra addressing 
> schemes for map consumers to decode. 
>   
Actually, I only mentioned that for completeness. It is a short-lived
fringe benefit.
I believe all the editors will need to be able to show/hide certain
classes of ways eventually.
With the city and county boundaries imports, it is already becoming hard
to edit roads since they often have a boundary running down them.

In places where you have, say,  a road, a city line, a
residential-landuse boundary and soon addressing interpolation ways in
almost the same place, it is not easy for the newcomer to keep from
accidentally cross-connecting things.

/Stellan