[Talk-us] Which county next?

[Steve Coast]

On 6/8/2011 12:43 PM, Alan Mintz wrote:
> 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.

Ah I see. Well the question is really whether the centroid is better 
than the front door. My argument would be no, the centroid is usually in 
a pretty random place. The front door with some clever processing will 
get you the house and also the driveway shapes.

Steve

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>> 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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