[Talk-us] US Addressing

Richard Welty rwelty at averillpark.net
Fri Nov 30 04:43:13 GMT 2012


On 11/29/12 11:36 PM, Ian Dees wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, November 29, 2012, Mike N wrote:
>>
>> So map the driveways and buildings, too.  I mean, how core are we?
>>
> My hope is that we can get the best address points added to OSM then we
> improve on it when needed. Automating the repetitive task of address entry
> by converting existing government data is a huge step to getting addressing
> coverage. Once we get it in there we can move it/correct it in less time.
>
> We should probably decide now if the goal of OSM's address points should be
> rooftop or driveway points. It sounds like we're mostly in agreement that
> it should be rooftop.
>
roof top works as long as we provide the driveways in cases where they
are long or "unusual".

for the garmin/mkgmap case, we have to actually attach the address to
notes on the road. having the long/twisty driveways mapped helps a lot.

richard




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