[OSM-talk] Introducing SwiftAddress, an highly efficient way of collecting housenumbers

[Simon Poole]

Am 25.01.2021 um 05:55 schrieb Matija Nalis:

> - Vespuccy
It's Vespucci, as in Amerigo Vespucci the person the continent is named 
after.
>     PROS:
>       - can overlay aerial/satellite imagery, which makes is good to pinpoint exact building location
>       - can put addresses at exact location due to visual feedback (OSM building and/or aerial photos)
>       - AI for address guessing (pays off if loooong streets, but not in other cases)
It's not AI, just extrapolating from the geometry. Number prediction 
will obviously not work particularly well for "randomly" assigned 
numbers, however avoiding suggesting the same number more than once and 
automatic addr:street detection will provide some benefit in any case.
>       - some consistency checking
>       - can draw building polygon (but at a loss of ease of use)
>       - can kind-of work offline if you know and prepare mapping area in advance...
Just ask for me to add your area of interest to 
http://mapsplit.poole.ch/ and then you can use daily updated offline 
data. If you want to use background imagery offline you can use MBTiles.
>       - can use it for almost all of my other more complex editing needs (but I still prefer JOSM - probably mostly due to vastly bigger screen estate)
>     CONS:
>       - interface is much harder than competition (often due to many features and small screen!)
>       - require manually pointing at exact location for each address node
This is naturally only an issue if you are adding nodes and not adding 
address tags to a building outline, but as nearly all such problems the 
solution is to zoom in a bit more (I'm a bit puzzled by the "exact" 
location bit though).
>       - entering initial addresses to seed AI (and any not-correctly-guessed values) is more complex than in most other tools
That strongly depends on if there is any existing address data or not, 
you should not have to enter/correct more than a total of three numbers 
even if there is none. As the Vespucci docs mention address prediction 
works best when auto-download is turned on. Naturally this might not be 
financially or technically possible online (that you can turn it on and 
off is naturally exactly part of the "complexity" people like to 
complain about), but if you use offline data neither is an issue.
>       - classic full Android keyboard is small and unoptimized for this specific use

Sure, but if somebody actually -wants- a solution to this and is willing 
to test and provide feedback this can naturally be added, see the open 
issue I referred to.

Simon


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