[OSM-talk] Yet another street number scheme

[Jochen Topf]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 04:29:50PM -0200, Matias D'Ambrosio wrote:
>  The interpolation method is a lot better to map areas quickly, too. I plan to 
> do a short trip on Sunday to see a performance, in that short trip I'll be 
> able to write down all the street names in that town, whether they are one 
> way and the numbers in a good quantity of the intersections. That will take 
> me what, an hour, maybe? I can do that just driving around with a buddy 
> taking notes. If we choose to use *only* the Karlsruhe schema then I would 
> need to actually get off the car (house numbers use much smaller signs not 
> always visible from the car) and walk for several hours in different days. 
> Not to mention I would not walk in certain neighbourhoods. It's not 
> practical. Many mappers don't have a GPS and a GPS' precision is often not 
> good enough to tell a lot from the next one; figuring out which building a 
> number belongs to from a satellite/aerial photograph is not easy. The 
> Karlsruhe schema is a luxury for areas that are already very well mapped.

But the Karlsruhe schema also includes the interpolation option. So
while I do see the merit in other schemes, I don't understand what your
particular problem is here. I have done some mapping with the Karlsruhe
scheme and I have used interpolation all the time.

Jochen
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