[OSM-talk] Featured images for christmas week

[Karl Newman]

On Dec 21, 2007 10:49 AM, Andy Robinson (blackadder)
<blackadderajr at googlemail.com> wrote:
> David James wrote:
> >Sent: 21 December 2007 5:48 PM
> >To: talk at openstreetmap.org
> >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Featured images for christmas week
> >
> >
> >On Fri, December 21, 2007 2:30 pm, Andy Robinson \(blackadder\) wrote:
> >> If house number rendering gets implemented in time I'll do an image of my
> >>  local area that might be considered. I've just started gathering house
> >> number and other close-in data.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.55511
> >> <http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.55511&lon=-
> >1.81947&zoom=17&layers=0B
> >> T>
> >> &lon=-1.81947&zoom=17&layers=0BT
> >
> >I don't know whether to be impressed at the level of detail you've
> >gathered, or depressed because of how small it makes my own efforts look
> >... :-(
>
> Well, its my local area and since I started to map it in 2005 it shouldn't
> be a surprise that I use it as a bit of a testing area. Some of the earliest
> ways (sub 50 ID numbers) lurk in there.
>
> >
> >One question - what's the source for the residential=building data (the
> >rectangle-ish areas at the sides of the roads)?
> >
>
> It's a mixture of manual survey and artistic impression. The beginning and
> end of each run of houses is easy to do by taking a photo of the boundary
> position which when synchronised in JOSM to the GPX track gives you a pretty
> accurate location. The setback from the road is guesswork and doesn't yet
> sit right with the width of the road at every zoom level. The thickness
> again is guesswork and where I'm trying to give an impression rather than
> being precise. The same applies to the total run of the building, which in
> most cases is actually semi detached or detached housing which should really
> be drawn as individual blocks. Maybe in a couple of year's time I'll feel
> like going to that extent! for now I'm just making a single continuous run
> where there are only residential homes along the run. If something else
> interjects I take a photo of it and tag appropriately.
>
> One the house number rendering works you will see I hope little numbers at
> the start and end of each run of building. These are set on nodes within
> each building area. I'm also recording the house number opposite a side
> junction.
>
> I would say though that all of this is only really possible if you have
> fully mapped out all the roads and other paths and tracks. I was surprised
> how easy it is to gather the extra data. Doing it on foot, that's the only
> reliable way of ascertaining the house number on each end of a block.
>
> Cheers
>
> Andy

AFAIK, there still isn't an approved way to tag house numbers yet.
I've been discussing it on the Wiki. Maybe there is a method for
individual buildings, though.

Karl