[Openstreetmap] Re: road names

[Tom Carden]

On 11/17/05, Alex Mauer <hawke at hawkesnest.net> wrote:
>
> I don't think the left/right distinction is terribly useful. It's nearly
> always sufficient, both for navigation and for ease of data entry, to
> know what block a particular number is on

We don't model blocks though, we model street segments.

> (though it may be interesting
> to provide co-ordinates for each individual house...).

Except that left/right seems essential if you want to draw it like
maporama does?

I'm not interested in "blocks", if I can think of a general case which
supports all the subtleties people are describing.

> Segments are
> also not the best unit for this, as roads may be divided into multiple
> segments (curved or long roads).

So you just specify numbers at the start of the first curve segment
and the end of the last one.  No big deal.

> I just wanted to get the idea out
> there that it is useful to distinguish units smaller than the entire road.
>

But OSM almost certainly won't have units smaller than the entire
road, except for segments, for the foreseeable future.

Tom.