[Talk-us] Which county next?

[Kate Chapman]

On Jun 9, 2011, at 12:34 AM, Steve Coast wrote:

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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Steve

I think in the majority of cases the front door is going to be the best option.  Yes there are exceptions to this, but I would hope that people would start adding long driveways to those exceptions as they were improving the map.

-Kate




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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"
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> San Diego County, CA, USA has a bunch of address data from a SanGIS import.
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