[Talk-us] [Imports] [Talk-ca] TIGER considered harmful

[Dave Hansen]

On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 18:28 -0500, Kate Chapman wrote:
> Maybe I'm confused about the address versus road information.  I would
> think the address point would be the front door of the building and
> would not be a relation to the road.  So the node of the address and
> the way of the road would not be on top of each other. 

You're right, they're not geographically right on top of each other.

But, in OSM we have these "relation" data primitives to tie different
thing together.  In this case, we use relations to tie addresses and
roads together.  I think this is in case of things like the road getting
moved.  The address nodes at least don't become orphans.

-- Dave