<HTML><BODY><br>> This seems like a particularly strange edge case for the address scheme,<br>> but I'm curious if any of those valid addresses are consider the "primary?" <br><br>I am curious too, and there is no answer actually. Ofc. whe can chose one of them as primary, but in most cases it's not obvious.<br>For example, residents may have one address in their official documents, and when you want to sand a mail you will threat<br>this address as primary, but POIs might use the second one.<br><br>> And if that's the case, what's wrong with creating a node on the building for each additional valid address? <br>> People looking for an amenity could look up closest POIs after finding a secondary address.<br><br>It solves a half of a problem actually.<br>It solves only "give me coordinates by address" problem.<br>It doesn't solves "give me and address/addresses for coordinates or building or POI"<br><br>So, yes, you could find a poi using nodes, but you unable to create yellow pages booklet for instance.<br><br>You can't say, should other points be threated as stand-alone objects or they are here to indicate<br>that building has other addresses.<br><br>Point's could be an drawback to help solve direct geocoding problem, <br>but problem of ambivalence of addresses still there.<br><br>Mon, 19 Jan 2015 05:06:23 -0600 от Paul Johnson <baloo@ursamundi.org>:<br>
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<div id="style_14216655900000000484_BODY"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 4:54 AM, Dmitry Kiselev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="//e.mail.ru/compose/?mailto=mailto%3adkiselev@osm.me" target="_blank">dkiselev@osm.me</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>Andrew, you don't answered a question how to compare addr points to poi points,<br>and chose is there one address or two or more. </div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div> </div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Also there is no chance to map building with addresses with node <br>(without polygonal geometry, in case you can't draw outline accurate enough).</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This seems like a particularly strange edge case for the address scheme, but I'm curious if any of those valid addresses are consider the "primary?" And if that's the case, what's wrong with creating a node on the building for each additional valid address? People looking for an amenity could look up closest POIs after finding a secondary address. It's not a clean situation, but it does have a couple advantages:</div><div><ul><li>Works with existing data consumers<br></li><li>Simple for users to tag.<br></li></ul>Granted, it does have the obvious drawback you mentioned.</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><span>> This problem is already solved by bare address nodes. There's<br> > absolutely no need to introduce an additional ugly complex scheme just<br> > to avoid spatial lookups into the database.<br><br></span>Please answer the questions before making such pathetic statements. <br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div> Guys, guys, there's got to be an civil way to discuss this. We can all fight when we're drunk at SOTM. *ducks!*</div></div></div></div>
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