[OSM-talk] How to improve addressing?

[Russ Nelson]

Frederik Ramm writes:
 > Please note that any imports have to follow the import guidelines 
 > documented on the wiki (prior discussion on imports@, separate account 
 > and all that). In your concrete case I would be interested to learn how 
 > you deal with already exisiting numbered or un-numbered buildings.

What existing numbered buildings, Fred? This is the US we're talking
about, not Germany.

 > Also, anyone who imports something that is "easily fixed when wrong" 
 > should be prepared to fix stuff themselves; sadly we have more than 
 > enough imports where the importer believed that someone else is going to 
 > fix it.

It's not THAT wrong, and for small lots is perfect. And yes, it's not
going to get fixed until somebody discovers that it's wrong, and
that's not going to happen until people start using the map, and
that's not going to happen until it's useful.

 > As for auto-incrementing addresses in JOSM, what exactly should it be doing?

What if the Presets/Annotation/Addresses dialog box wasn't modal (like
the relations editor, where it lets you continue to edit), and had a
"Apply and Increment" button? Then you could go down a row of houses
(once you've verified that they're consecutively numbered), and
deposit a pre-made house with Control-V, then hit "Apply and
Increment" to store an address into it.

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