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

[Anthony]

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Peter Batty <peter.batty at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you have two streets intersecting and put a number on that node, it isn't
> clear which street that applies to. You could add an artificial node close
> to the end of the street, but that seems a bit more messy to me.

If you're adding the nodes manually, it's reasonable - you'd want the
numbers to start at the place where the house is anyway, not at the
intersection.

If you're adding things automatically, I guess I have to admit it's a
little messy - much less than adding two ways, but yeah, it's a bit
artificial (you could always add a second node in the same exact
location as the intersection, but only connected to one way, but let's
not go there).

Alternatively, you could use a relation, to specify which way you're
talking about.  From a technical standpoint I guess that's better, but
people don't like relations.

> So my gut feel is that the simplest approach is still attributes on the street.

How do you split a way?  Do you just guess at the address at the point
of the split?  Isn't that even more "messy"?