Fundamentally, there isn't a single answer to this problem. The answer we have developed in Edinburgh is to place a node on the building where the entrance is, this is largely because a single building will Costa n many door as well as shops etc. Shops are added as nodes set back I not the building. The idea is that there is usually a single point you would expect to be routed to when going to an address.<br><br>Cheers<br>Chris<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, 21 May 2015 at 17:30, Ross <<a href="mailto:info@4x4falcon.com">info@4x4falcon.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Hi,<br>
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We know that <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr" target="_blank">addr:housenumber</a>=* <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Addresses#How_to_map_addresses" target="_blank">can be tagged on nodes</a>
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Address = building = area, not node. It's 'accepted' as a
second best option for where a building hasn't been drawn. I
find quite a lot of them and remove them by transferring the
data to the buildings - sometimes there's a building and a
loose node containing the same data! In those cases, a simple
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Where is it accepted?<br>
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Australian addresses refer to the property only and a property may
have several buildings.<br>
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I can show you plenty of locations where there is no building but it
still has an address, or the property is so large that the access
from the street/road is 50km from the only building on the property
and if you were routing to the address you'd never get there if the
address was on the building.<br>
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As someone else also pointed out, accepted practice in different
countries varies.<br>
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Open address data in Australia is point (node) data and specifies
what type of address it is, eg "Driveway frontage", "Building
Centroid", "Property Centroid", "Property Access Point", to name a
few.<br>
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The most significant of these is the "Property Access Point" it
tends to occur where a property has an address in one street but
because of different reasons (cliff, drainage, etc) the actual
access is from another street, usually via a right of way.<br>
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IMO addresses should be on nodes only and should show were you
access the property (type "Driveway frontage", "Property Access
Point", "Building Access Point") without anything else on the node.
This way when you use a router it takes you to where you access the
property. This also covers the accessibility issues for disabled
access.<br>
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