[Talk-us] Which county next?

[Alan Mintz]

At 2011-06-08 10:57, Steve Coast wrote:
>Who says it's being done for driving directions?

Is that/will that not be a popular use for OSM? It does not make walking 
directions impossible - just requires the addition of the driveway to the 
map. OTOH, putting the pin on the front door of a building inside a large 
parcel may well leave a driver lost and quite a distance from where he 
needs to be.


>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.
>>
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