Re: [Tagging] Housenumber interpolation with regularly skippednumbers

2009-10-11 Thread Randy Thomson
Richard Bullock wrote: > > Or even we could just use > > addr:interpolation=x > > to mean that only every x numbers are included between the first and > last > > So 1,5,9,13 could be tagged addr:interpolation=4 > > That seems like a reasonable suggestion and a simple extension of the > exist

Re: [Tagging] Housenumber interpolation with regularly skippednumbers

2009-10-11 Thread Tobias Knerr
Anthony writes: >>> What is one supposed to do if the number of houses is unknown? Do I >>> need to propose an >>> addr:interpolation_as_the_word_is_defined_[...] >>> to handle that situation? Yes, you are trying to express something that is different from what I'm trying to tag, so we should use

Re: [Tagging] Housenumber interpolation with regularly skippednumbers

2009-10-10 Thread Liz
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009, Randy Thomson wrote: > Of course, there are many places, mostly in commercial land-use areas > that meet your example of widely and irregularly spaced numbers. I > wouldn't attempt to use interpolation in such a situatation, but would > either tag a building outline or a buildi

Re: [Tagging] Housenumber interpolation with regularly skippednumbers

2009-10-10 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Randy Thomson wrote: > My answer to your first question is a labor saving of anywhere from 2 > to 10-fold for the mapper. I'm talking about thousands of houses. And what about the labor savings when I try to map a few hundred strip malls with addresses like this (

Re: [Tagging] Housenumber interpolation with regularly skippednumbers

2009-10-10 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Randy Thomson wrote: > Anthony wrote: >> If you know where >> all the individual houses are, why bother with an interpolation? > > My answer to your first question is a labor saving of anywhere from 2 > to 10-fold for the mapper. I'm talking about thousands of hous

Re: [Tagging] Housenumber interpolation with regularly skippednumbers

2009-10-10 Thread Randy Thomson
Anthony wrote: > On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Tobias Knerr > wrote: > > Anthony writes: > >> In an interpolation, the number of houses is unknown. > > > > I don't agree with this statement. I'd assume that an > > interpolation=even between numbers 8 and 42 means that EVERY even > > number be

Re: [Tagging] Housenumber interpolation with regularly skippednumbers

2009-10-10 Thread Randy Thomson
Anthony wrote: > On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Tobias Knerr > wrote: > > My suggestion is to use a new interpolation value; something like > > interpolation=step + step=4 (step=2 would produce the same result as > > odd/even, depending on the house number it starts with; step=1 would > > have

Re: [Tagging] Housenumber interpolation with regularly skippednumbers

2009-10-10 Thread Randy Thomson
Granted the number of buildings can be unknown, but is the number of valid addresses unknown? In my case, the second address is not valid, and will never be valid, unless a house is torn down and a duplex is built in its place, which might (or might not) require a zoning change. -- Randy __