[Talk-us] Which county next?

Steve Coast steve at asklater.com
Wed Jun 8 18:57:28 BST 2011


Who says it's being done for driving directions?

On 6/7/2011 3:28 PM, Alan Mintz wrote:
> "The site allows you to drag a pin from where we think an address 
> currently is to the front door of the property"
>
> Is that really where we want the pin to be for driving directions? 
> I've mostly tended to either putting the address info on a complete 
> landuse polygon, or if a point, placing it on the driveway, just off 
> the street to which it connects. I swear I read this somewhere as 
> standard practice, and it makes sense from a navigation standpoint, 
> particularly for rural parcels, where a "driveway" can be hundreds of 
> meters long and not mapped.
>
> San Diego County, CA, USA has a bunch of address data from a SanGIS 
> import.
>
> -- 
> Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>
>
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