[OSM-talk] Addressing SIG

Kathleen Lu kathleen.lu at mapbox.com
Wed Nov 6 19:40:01 UTC 2019


For your usecase, Tom, perhaps Street-Complete would work for you if you
turned on all the building-related quests and turned off the other quests?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.westnordost.streetcomplete&hl=en_US

On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 11:33 AM Tom Russell <tom.russell at ouce.ox.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Am Mi., 6. Nov. 2019 um 09:17 Uhr schrieb Oleksiy Muzalyev <
> oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch>:
>
> On the main osm.org site one can right-click on a building and select
> "Show address" or "Add a note here" . What if a new type of a note is
> introduced, a structured address note?
>
>
>
> This is something I’ve been thinking about recently, with a slightly
> broader interest in building data more generally.
>
>
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> As part of an academic project (https://colouring.london/) looking at
> buildings in London in the UK, we’re thinking about how to collect various
> building data attributes. We’re not currently using OpenStreetMap data for
> our buildings, however I would be interested to look into ways of linking
> to, working with, or building on OSM in the future.
>
>
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> It might be interesting to create a lighter, more restricted user
> interface for editing the map, for example following the idea of an
> “Address” structured note, or to collect other data about buildings (number
> of storeys, commercial use). Or I could imagine a system that doesn’t edit
> OSM directly but creates a “review queue” of linked data which could feed
> into the main database as mappers work through it.
>
>
>
> All early ideas - in any case, I’ll be interested to follow an Addressing
> SIG.
>
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Tom
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