[OSM-talk] Adding Addresses to OSM

[TM]

I have thought about that too. The way I see it is that the data should
be as complete as possible, so that whatever tool which needs it can
operate on a suitable subset rather than the complete dataset. For
instance, a route planning application would not need to know about all
nodes along a way, but only the junctions (a directed graph with the
direction of each path. Note, however, that any reasonably intuitive
graphical representation would require knowledge of the full set of
nodes/segments.).

Although I think most people will be busy with streets and roads for
now, if anyone wants to add individual addresses the free-form tag
system allows for this. However, it would probably be a good idea not to
add these nodes to the way.

Once the data is stored in some recognisable way, we could try to make
sense of it and convert the nodes to a new type or move them to a
separate db table. Or whatever seems best when we've had some debate on
the issue...

    /   TM

Andy Robinson wrote:
> This is one of these fundamental aspects of a fully fledges street index for
> a fully fledged street map, ie being able to turn a full address into a
> location.
>
> Personally I would prefer not to see the map data delivered to editors
> cluttered with extraneous nodes for every address. Clearly the db needs to
> hold nodes with address data though.
>
> What are others thoughts on this?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andy
>
> Andy Robinson
> Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 
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>> Subject: [OSM-talk] Adding Addresses to OSM
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>> Is there a standardized way to add street addresses to OSM?  It would seem
>> that the easiest way would be to add a node to the way that the address is
>> on.  Then add an "address" key for the address number and some sort of key
>> to say which side of the road the address is on.  Or if there were a
>> database of addresses and their lat/lon that could be important instead.
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