[OSM-talk] Adding Addresses to OSM

[Michael Robinson]

When you figure all of the time that goes into inserting nodes, drawing
segments, creating ways, and tagging everything I don't think it would be
much more.  I guess it's really a question of value, if it isn't really
needed then we shouldn't bother adding it and should focus our time on the
streets themselves.

-- 
Michael Robinson
mrobinson at fuzzymuzzle.com
www.fuzzymuzzle.com


On 9/13/06, Tom Chance <tom at acrewoods.net> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 13 September 2006 13:44, Michael Robinson wrote:
> > Collecting address data should be a joke when compared to collecting GPS
> > data.  Just walk/drive around to each house's driveway and take down
> their
> > street, number, and coordinates.
>
> Urm, that sounds like *far* more work to me. Nip down a street on bike and
> note down the street name, versus slowly taking down the numbers and
> coords
> for a suitable range of buildings on foot. That would take *forever* in a
> major town!
>
> For the moment I've been doing postcodes of pubs in Reading, whose coords
> I
> already note down. That's fairly easy, but unless there were hundreds of
> people helping I wouldn't want to collect address data by hand!
>
> That reminds me, must add more pub postcodes to freethepostcode...
>
> Regards,
> Tom
>
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