[OSM-talk] Yet another street number scheme

[Andy Allan]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 6:28 AM, Karl Newman <siliconfiend at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just to reiterate my perspective, the Karlsruhe schema is fine for what it
> is, but it's not sufficient for all uses.

Perhaps not natively, but I don't see why it can't be converted into
interpolated-on-street during processing? I don't know of any use of
OSM data that doesn't require *some* level of processing.

On the other hand, putting the information directly on the street
limits the ability to produce useful things like maps with numbers on
the building outlines. So I'd say we should go for "numbers on houses"
(e.g. Karlsruhe scheme), and downgrade using post-processing to
"numbers on streets" whenever there's such desire / technological
limitations.

Cheers,
Andy