[OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Addressing Question

[Apollinaris Schoell]

follow the OSM principle.
map what's on the ground no matter where you are


On 12 Nov 2009, at 11:56 , Dave Hansen wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 11:40 -0800, Apollinaris Schoell wrote:
>> On 12 Nov 2009, at 11:29 , Anthony wrote:
>>> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> It's a fairly well established convention that in OSM it's the
>>>> houses/plots, not the road centrelines, that are addressed.
>>>
>>> But that doesn't always reflect reality.  The reality, at least in
>>> many parts of the world, is that the streets are given blocks of
>>> potential addresses, and the houses/plots/whatever are given actual
>>> addresses from those potential address blocks.
>>>
>> Don't know any place except in US where this has been done.
>
> So, should we ignore the US for addressing entirely since it is
> different?  Or, should US addressing use a different scheme than the
> rest of the world?  We like being different.
>
> -- Dave
>