[mkgmap-dev] address index glitch?

Mon Nov 26 01:12:32 GMT 2012

On 11/25/12 11:21 AM, Henning Scholland wrote:
>
> Whats what I've learned while Operation Cowboy. In Europe this isn't
> really critical, because mainly buildings are next to the road. In US
> this is different in rural areas. There are houses in the middle of
> nowhere. What would a user assume? Routing ends at highway, where
> driveway starts or at the end of driveway? I'm mapping in Wyoming and
> there I've seen sometimes very long driveways [
> http://mc.bbbike.org/mc/?lon=-105.10806&lat=41.83972&zoom=16&num=1&mt0=mapnik&mt-1=ol_bing-satellite&mt-1p=35
> ] so I espect a routing to end of driveway.
>
it's not just the west. here is a spot (about 1 mile from my home in 
upstate NY) which is a good example of
the rural US:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=42.61604&lon=-73.59272&zoom=17&layers=M

richard