[Talk-us] Address Lookup

[Apollinaris Schoell]

there is not much value to add address interpolation in US. this can be done easier and more consistent by using a plain tiger DB. only if detailed addresses are added to osm there is additional value. 
and yes this is a lot of work much more than streets. some counties offer detailed data and it can be imported easily. in other places it has to be done by survey. but wasn't that the idea of osm? competing with google in processing public data has no chance anyway. why not concentrate on the strengths of crowd sourcing.


On 21 May 2010, at 6:45 , Val Kartchner wrote:
> 
> The goal of Open Street Map is to eventually do everything that
> commercial map products do.  This would include address lookup.
> 
> I've looked around and the way of associating addresses with streets
> doesn't seem to work very well.  The simplest way (requiring the fewest
> nodes) still requires a lot of work.
> 
> For instance, for an example I've picked a street around my area: West
> 2550 North.  This is just the ways needed for the streets themselves.
> (I didn't include the names on the cross streets because they don't
> matter for this example.)
> 
> A    B          C   D   E
> |    |          |   |   |
> |    |          |   |   |
> +--+-+--+---+---+---+---+--
>   |    |   |   |   |   |
>   |    |   |   |   |   |
>   F    G   H
> 
>> From what I understand, next to each place where another street
> intersects this street I will have to create another node (on each side
> of the street) tagged with "addr:street" and "addr:housenumber".  I will
> need to connect the nodes on each side of the street with a relation.
> The relation I will need to tag with "addr:interpolation" and even/odd,
> as appropriate.  This makes the "simple" street above now look like
> this:
> 
> A    B          C   D   E
> |    |          |   |   |
> |    |          |   |   |
> *----*--*---*---*---*---*-*
> +--+-+--+---+---+---+---+--
> *----*--*---*---*---*---*-*
>   |    |   |   |   |   |
>   |    |   |   |   |   |
>   F    G   H
> 
> This is a LOT of data to manually add.  Is there a simpler way?
> 
> No, I don't have a better idea.
> 
> - Val -
> 
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