<html><head></head><body>Exactly, typical of OSM... If we can't sort this out, we will just continue to go round in circles. How does one tell the difference, or which type of address is intended? What if we want to put both types of address on the same object?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 October 2017 15:56:22 CEST, Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 27, 2017 8:03 AM, "Colin Smale" <<a href="mailto:colin.smale@xs4all.nl">colin.smale@xs4all.nl</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution" /><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">
<p>Time for a more philosophical discussion... What is the function of this thing we call "address"? Is it to identify a premises? Is it to describe a premises? Does it refer to the whole premises, or just the bit with the front door or letter box? Or is it "where to deliver post"?</p></div>
</blockquote></div>This is a long-standing issue in OSM. An address is either (1) a feature that can be mapped on its own right and therefore should only exist once on the map, or (2) an attribute or property of some other feature in OSM and therefore can be added to multiple objects that share the same address. Both types of schemes exist on the map right now.</div></div>
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