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<p>A tip from CRM systems: addresses have a specific role, just like we have multiple phone numbers: one for work, one for home, mobile, fax etc., we can also have multiple addresses. One may be the legal address of a company, one for postal deliveries (possibly non-geographic such as a Postbox number), one for navigation purposes, one to identify the building..... all leading to the same location, but from a different perspective. If it is "too difficult" to have address roles, try defining which "role" the OSM address is intended to represent. They might all be correct, but just from a different perspective. Why are the addresses in OSM in the first place?</p>
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<p>//colin</p>
<p>On 2017-03-18 18:37, Janko Mihelić wrote:</p>
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<p>Imagine a data consumer trying to find out the address of all those stores. Not only is it hard because you have to find surrounding areas and extract the address, but in your case it's impossible because you can't know for sure which entrance it took its address from. What's your solution to that? The only solution I see is relations, but IMHO that would be a mess.</p>
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<div>Janko<br /><br />
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<div dir="ltr">On Sat, 18 Mar 2017, 17:57 Tristan Anderson, <<a href="mailto:andersontristan@hotmail.com">andersontristan@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<p class="gmail_msg">I"m not sure I agree.</p>
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<p class="gmail_msg">Let's say a store has three entrances: 2, 4 and 6 Main Street. The store uses it's main entrance, 4 Main Street, as it's address. Are you suggesting using the addr:housenumber key four times: a node at each entrance in addition to a tag on the store? Now you've tagged 4 Main Street twice, even though there is only one 4 Main Street. Either tag the store or the entrance, not both.</p>
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