[Talk-us] Address placement (was: Fresno castradal imports)

[Toby Murray]

Moving this to a new thread because there is no address data in the
Fresno import so this discussion is completely irrelevant.

I believe NE2 started a thread about this a while ago and there wasn't
too much response but since it came up again...


On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Because that information is useless in OSM. It was out of date the second
>> someone ran the upload script and unless the city of Fresno decides to
>> switch to OSM for their official tax plat information (which I'm pretty sure
>> would be illegal in most jurisdictions), no one in the community can improve
>> it. We should get rid of it.
>
> Property lines are still observable phenomenon, though.  Depending on
> jurisdiction, it might require surveying from the nearest benchmark,
> but in many cases, there's markers embedded in the nearest curb or
> other devices indicating the most recent plot boundary.
>
>> I mentioned the address nodes because it would be the only useful data to
>> keep in OSM. As Toby mentioned, there's no such data.
>
> Though the address belongs to an area, so it would make sense to keep
> the corresponding boundary.

Does it? Certainly for official records such as taxes it does. But
this is outside of OSM's domain.

In OSM, the use case for address data is geocoding and I would argue
that general use geocoding users would rather get a building outline
or even a node at the main entrance of a location, not the centroid of
the property. In Fresno this may be pretty much the same thing but in
less populated areas, the plot might be rather large and you would
definitely want the address data to be where the actual residence is.

Toby