[OSM-talk] Adding Addresses to OSM

Erik Johansson erjohan at gmail.com
Wed Sep 13 11:50:58 BST 2006


On 9/13/06, Thomas Walraet <thomas at walraet.com> wrote:
> TM a écrit :
> >
> > One reason to separate the address nodes from the road data is the
> > amount of data -- and work -- involved. Creating a street map of the
> > world is pretty ambitious, and mapping every house is downright
> > ludicrous.
>
> For town map, it's very handy to have house number at each intersection.
> Most detailled maps show that. It help to pick the right subway station
> to use for a given address even if the road is very long (longest is
> 4,36 km in Paris).
>
> I think OSM should handle this info (keeping the position of each number
> along the road is more arguable. I even wonder if anybody is doing it,
> as all applications I saw seems to approximate the position for a given
> address on the road)
>
>
> The problem is : How to tag this ?


I have tagged the segments of a junction with
"numbers=15-45,14-80"/"numbers="leftside,rightside". It's a very bad
scheme for a number of reasons, but it's easy to tag.




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