Re: [Tagging] reference_point and landmark for addresses

2012-04-04 Thread Felix Delattre
Right. So I just moved to proposal to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/reference_point The comments from Erik Johansson I posted on the previous proposal wiki page in order to not forget them in the future. As Lukáš explained I agree and as a first step i give priority to have

Re: [Tagging] reference_point and landmark for addresses

2012-04-04 Thread LM_1
Would not the problem with describing the position on the object be that you could still not find the reference object and thus it would be completely useless? If you have a location description referenced from "big tree" you need to find the big tree. There are multiple ways to get to the location

Re: [Tagging] reference_point and landmark for addresses

2012-03-30 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
What about the established tag "addr:full"? This was intended for cases like this. cheers, Martin ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] reference_point and landmark for addresses

2012-03-30 Thread Erik Johansson
2012/3/27 Johan Jönsson : > I will make my point clearer. > It isn´t the houses with adresses that will be tagged, it is the > Reference_point itself. Indeed in the current scheme of things, addr:reference_point=* should be part of the node where the adress is, in the same way that the very simil

Re: [Tagging] reference_point and landmark for addresses

2012-03-27 Thread Johan Jönsson
I will make my point clearer. It isn´t the houses with adresses that will be tagged, it is the Reference_point itself. A street with 20 houses. *The street: highway=residential and name=Big_Street *The twenty houses have each addr:housenumber=1..20 and addr:street=Big_Street An area with 20 ho

Re: [Tagging] reference_point and landmark for addresses

2012-03-26 Thread fly
On 26/03/12 22:25, Johan Jönsson wrote: > Felix Delattre writes: >> I started working on a draft for a proposal: >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/addr:reference_point >> Please help me! > > This is an important thing to map. +1 > I have been looking at https://wiki.open

Re: [Tagging] reference_point and landmark for addresses

2012-03-26 Thread Johan Jönsson
Felix Delattre writes: > I started working on a draft for a proposal: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/addr:reference_point > Please help me! This is an important thing to map. I have been looking at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Addresses and it seems that the key

Re: [Tagging] reference_point and landmark for addresses

2012-03-24 Thread Felix Delattre
Hello, I started working on a draft for a proposal: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/addr:reference_point Please help me! Thanks. Felix On 03/21/2012 01:09 PM, Felix Delattre wrote: > On 03/21/2012 07:06 AM, Steve Bennett wrote: >> I seem to recall having read either the art

Re: [Tagging] reference_point and landmark for addresses

2012-03-21 Thread Stephen Hope
On 21 March 2012 20:22, Pieren wrote: > And your example about "from where the Cinema was before" is a bit a > problem if we don't see any evidence on the ground (like old signs but > afain we don't have tags yet for that). This is exactly the kind of problem we have with neighbourhoods as disc

Re: [Tagging] reference_point and landmark for addresses

2012-03-21 Thread Felix Delattre
On 03/21/2012 07:06 AM, Steve Bennett wrote: > I seem to recall having read either the articles Felix posted, or > similar ones. The point is, in some countries, these informal > descriptions actually *are* genuine addresses. There's no other > addressing system in place, so over time they become t

Re: [Tagging] reference_point and landmark for addresses

2012-03-21 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 3/21/2012 9:06 AM, Steve Bennett wrote: The harder question is if you want to try and define actual addresses, like actually putting a unique address description on each dwelling ("From the church, 400m south", "From the church, 380m south with the blue door"). But maybe leave that harder ques

Re: [Tagging] reference_point and landmark for addresses

2012-03-21 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > I ask because this sort of description is used everywhere. One might say "at > the end of the road, past Sand Lake Elementary School" rather than "8249 > Buena Vista Woods Boulevard", but that doesn't make the former any kind of > real add

Re: [Tagging] reference_point and landmark for addresses

2012-03-21 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 3/20/2012 6:52 PM, Felix Delattre wrote: In Central America describing addresses work differently than in northern countries. As there are often times no street names and people are used to describe the addresses with reference points. Only in some residential areas they use letter and numbers

Re: [Tagging] reference_point and landmark for addresses

2012-03-21 Thread Pieren
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:52 PM, Felix Delattre wrote: > My request is that I would like to start a discussion about > the the tags "landmark" [1] and "reference_point" [2]. No idea about "reference_point" but a new "landmark" category is not a good one since we can already use the existing "man

[Tagging] reference_point and landmark for addresses

2012-03-20 Thread Felix Delattre
Hello, First of all: I'm not a deeply involved into OSM, just a small and sporadic contributer and I want to apologize in case I'm asking stupid questions. My request is that I would like to start a discussion about the the tags "landmark" [1] and "reference_point" [2]. But first of all, a little