I'm working on boundaries too (see my edits), but in Belgium, we have old (from the years 1800's) maps of all villages. The maps are so old they fall under PD and thus can be used. Since the boundaries aren't changed in many cases, the maps can still be used. Maybe you can search the libraries of your own government for such maps. I don't know if they exist.

greets,
Sander

I believe the addr:street tag is more natural than a relation to mappers. Certainly in the case of address nodes. In the case of address interpolation, a relation would be better I guess.

Interpolations are an aspect of the street, an address is an aspect of a node. Hence the difference.

I'm thankful that your company is willing to share data with OSM.

I hope it all goes well,
regards,
Sander

BTW, do you only make software on demand? or do you have some standard software packages too? Since I can't find anything on the site, I believe it's the first.

It's great to hear that. Addresses are really needed in Flanders' OSM. The road network is near complete but There are not many addresses available. I think this is because it isn't appealing to map addresses. They don't appear very clear on the map. They are almost uniquely used for routing.

If you need help to automate some things, you can ask for help via the mailing lists. E.g. http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/osm-professional

nee, maar ik gebruik wel nog altijd potlatch voor relaties. In josm vind ik dat niet zo handig.

Merkaartor zou ook goed zijn, een offline editor maar minder geavanceerd dan josm, maar ik heb hem nog nooit grondig geprobeerd.

grrrr ergens een haakje vergeten, en ik kan mijn post natuurlijk niet meer aanpassen.

Leren met de toetsen werken is nogal ambetant. Eenmaal je de shortcuts kent, dan is Potlatch meestal niet meer voldoende, en heb je nood aan een meer ontwikkeld programma zoals josm. Maar dan moet je weer alle shortcuts opnieuw leren.

Momenteel ben ik aan het josm+muis stadium. Als ik eenmaal de shortcuts ken, dan zal ik wrs nog minder met potlatch werken.

Btw: de shortcuts kan je vinden. Maar dat wist je misschien al. De josm shortcuts zijn wel wat uitgebreider.

If you can give me a global definition of name or reference, go ahead. Even a definition for name or reference that is only used in OSM is good for me.

As far as I know, it has never been consistently defined. So each mapper may have its own interpretation.

My definition goes as following:

ref: a short string that is used on official documents and signs, but that isn't used by the local community and has no words or parts of words of the local language in it.

name: a string that is used by the local community (in pure or derivated form) and that can be found on official documents.

so my difference between ref and name is the usage, not the type of string.

@dan: if you put the labels on it, you may choose how you do it.

if people name the quay by it, it's a ref and a name. So both tags with the same value are should be there.

a link to the tag description:

osm.wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dindustrial

The Quays, the different parts of land between the docks?

I suppose that you can call that industrial ground, so you could tag them with landuse=industrial and name=XX the code of the quay.

DUTCH:
De kaaien, dat zijn de stukken land tussen de verschillende dokken toch?

Ik denk dat je die een industrieel gebied kan noemen. Dus het meest correcte dat je kan doen is een gesloten weg tekenen, rond een kaai, die de tag landuse=industrial geven en een name=XX voor de kaainummers.

the name=Department X isn't good. The name should be the word by which everyone calls it (official and non-official sources). In this case the letter A, B ... or the complete ref: 200 A, 200 B...

I'm willing to duplicate that in a ref=... tag, but It's already in the addr:housenumber and in the name tag. so creating an extra ref tag is totally unnecessary.

maybe the addr:housename tag isn't correct. I do find the operator:department good, but there are buildings who have other usages as well. Like computer classes or labs. They don't belong to a department, but do have a name like "PC-classes".

@Niels: where do you get the secret list from? you need a database to that. I know, in my area, all databases of roads are closed.

Maybe you can say "trac the roads, at the end of the week/day, 20 roads around the world are chosen (randomly) and verified".

Advantage: worldwide and it keeps the same idea.
disadvantage: someone has to control the roads all over the planet. this would require a large user base. And if the user base grows, the number of roads needs to grow, which means more controlling.

so the addr:housename tag it is.

Should I put this on the wiki for other university, school or compagny buildings?

@compdude, I don't know it these are managed. In Belium, every piece of ground is managed by someone, if they had permission to put a building on it, they would. So I guess most woods are forests but I can be wrong.

I believe your company is the galeb group: http://www.galeb.com/

do you have access at the site? e.g. can you change the texts?

if so, how do you do that?

sorry, html screwed up my post. It's unreadable in that way, I'll reformat it here:

well, at the key:building page in the wiki, they say the building="building_typlology" is common. I don't think that "mathematics_faculty" is a type of building typology. I prefer to use a tag that doesn't collide with other used tags.

well, at the key:building page in the wiki, they say thee building= is common. I don't think that "mathematics_faculty" is a type of building typology. I prefer to use a tag that doesn't collide with other used tags.

not all companies are shown. Does an existing icon fits with your company? if not, maybe there is already an icon created. Take a look at the project of the week page: osm.wiki/Project_of_the_week/2010/Jul_25

if the icon already exists, there's a big chance it will be added within a few months.

if there is no icon, you need to create one yourself. Not a company specific icon, but a general icon that can be used to display you and your concurrents. If you have created it, upload it to the wiki and maybe contact the responsible for the project of the week. His email is in the last step about creating an icon.

so e.g.

addr:housename=Departement Wiskunde
addr:housename_en=Department of Mathematics
addr:housenumber=200 B
name=200 B

do you mean this? it looks good to me.

you need to own a website for this (or you can host your own local site to test it). Uploading the icon depends on the the service you're using.

So the first question: do you own a website, if yes, who hosts it?

the photo's will never be shown on openstreetmap. If you have geotagged pictures that someone can use to map, you can put them on openstreetview. If this is not what you want, take a look at osm.wiki/Photo_mapping#Websites.2Fprojects_about_geolocating_photos .

But remember, your photos will never be shown on the main openstreetmap.org site.