[Talk-us] Complete Addresseses (Was: What does the community want from a US local chapter?)

[Toby Murray]

On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Mike N <niceman at att.net> wrote:
> On 9/30/2011 11:27 PM, Val Kartchner wrote:
>>
>> It is much quicker to fill in address
>> interpolations.  Are either of these types of address data actually used
>> anywhere?
>
> Nominatim uses them (main www.openstreetmap page, MapQuest) today. Future
> navigator apps could use them; the current Skobbler/US app does not.

OsmAnd uses address data for offline address searching as well. I'm
sure there are other mobile apps that do this. It doesn't seem to
support interpolations though. It finds the start/end points since
they are normal address nodes but doesn't fill in the numbers in the
middle.

Toby