<div dir="ltr">I think Google, at least, is aware of it and made a decision not to use the <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">½. </span><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">In another project, I gained some experience with their mapping API, and the lack of <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">½ (and bis, etc.) caused some headaches when trying to geocode addresses. For your example, trying to resolve 40<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">½ Rue de Carillon gives a "partial match" and returns just the geocode for "<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Rue de Carillon", not even "<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">40</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"> Rue de Carillon"</span></span>.  </span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></span></div><div><span style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://www.google.ca/maps/search/40%C2%BD+Rue+de+Carillon,+Gatineau,+QC+J8X+2N7,+Canada/@45.4284038,-75.7238724,19z/data=!3m1!4b1">https://www.google.ca/maps/search/40%C2%BD+Rue+de+Carillon,+Gatineau,+QC+J8X+2N7,+Canada/@45.4284038,-75.7238724,19z/data=!3m1!4b1</a></span><br></span></span></div><div><span style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></span></span></div><div><span style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span style="font-size:12.8px">So for the other project, we had to strip out the numerical modifiers (<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">½, bis ...)</span> before trying to geocode. We could have tried to interpolate but that would have created other headaches.</span></span></span></div><div><span style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 9:41 PM, James <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james2432@gmail.com" target="_blank">james2432@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.google.ca/maps/place/40+Rue+de+Carillon,+Gatineau,+QC+J8X+2N7/@45.4286021,-75.7232533,19z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x4cce048bb61faba1:0x6e537799a3a8fb18" target="_blank">https://www.google.ca/maps/pla<wbr>ce/40+Rue+de+Carillon,+Gatinea<wbr>u,+QC+J8X+2N7/@45.4286021,-75.<wbr>7232533,19z/data=!4m2!3m1!<wbr>1s0x4cce048bb61faba1:0x6e53779<wbr>9a3a8fb18</a><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Google just removes the ½ and only resolves the 40.<br><br></div><div>Same with bing:<br><a href="https://binged.it/2FAlwVK" target="_blank">https://binged.it/2FAlwVK</a><br><br></div><div>Same with Here maps:<br><a href="https://wego.here.com/canada/gatineau/street-square/40-rue-de-carillon--loc-dmVyc2lvbj0xO3RpdGxlPTQwK1J1ZStkZStDYXJpbGxvbjtsYW5nPWZyO2xhdD00NS40Mjg1MzkyNzYxMjMwNTtsb249LTc1LjcyMzE5NzkzNzAxMTcyO3N0cmVldD1SdWUrZGUrQ2FyaWxsb247aG91c2U9NDA7Y2l0eT1HYXRpbmVhdTtwb3N0YWxDb2RlPUo4WCsyTjc7Y291bnRyeT1DQU47ZGlzdHJpY3Q9UXVhcnRpZXIrZGUrSHVsbDtzdGF0ZT1RdWViZWM7c3RhdGVDb2RlPVFDO2NvdW50eT1HYXRpbmVhdTtjYXRlZ29yeUlkPWJ1aWxkaW5nO3NvdXJjZVN5c3RlbT1pbnRlcm5hbDtubGF0PTQ1LjQyODUzMTY0NjcyODUxNjtubG9uPS03NS43MjMzNTA1MjQ5MDIzNA?map=45.42838,-75.72271,19,normal&msg=40%20Rue%20de%20Carillon" target="_blank">https://wego.here.com/canada/<wbr>gatineau/street-square/40-rue-<wbr>de-carillon--loc-<wbr>dmVyc2lvbj0xO3RpdGxlPTQwK1J1ZS<wbr>tkZStDYXJpbGxvbjtsYW5nPWZyO2xh<wbr>dD00NS40Mjg1MzkyNzYxMjMwNTtsb2<wbr>49LTc1LjcyMzE5NzkzNzAxMTcyO3N0<wbr>cmVldD1SdWUrZGUrQ2FyaWxsb247aG<wbr>91c2U9NDA7Y2l0eT1HYXRpbmVhdTtw<wbr>b3N0YWxDb2RlPUo4WCsyTjc7Y291bn<wbr>RyeT1DQU47ZGlzdHJpY3Q9UXVhcnRp<wbr>ZXIrZGUrSHVsbDtzdGF0ZT1RdWViZW<wbr>M7c3RhdGVDb2RlPVFDO2NvdW50eT1H<wbr>YXRpbmVhdTtjYXRlZ29yeUlkPWJ1aW<wbr>xkaW5nO3NvdXJjZVN5c3RlbT1pbnRl<wbr>cm5hbDtubGF0PTQ1LjQyODUzMTY0Nj<wbr>cyODUxNjtubG9uPS03NS43MjMzNTA1<wbr>MjQ5MDIzNA?map=45.42838,-75.<wbr>72271,19,normal&msg=40%20Rue%<wbr>20de%20Carillon</a><br><br></div><div>I'm thinking they are not aware of it....<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Mar 12, 2018, 4:12 PM Michał Brzozowski, <<a href="mailto:www.haxor@gmail.com" target="_blank">www.haxor@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I'd look how other map providers solved this.<br><br></div><div>On a side note, why I've never see such phrase on this list? We'd figure out many problems by looking how others do things. There's nothing wrong with it.<br><br></div><div>Michał<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 8:06 PM, Brad Neuhauser <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brad.neuhauser@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">brad.neuhauser@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small">I found it hard to pull out usage of "1/2" through taginfo, but was able to search for usage of the UTF-8 version
(½): <a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=%C2%BD#values" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.<wbr>org/search?q=%C2%BD#values</a> It's used very few times (~200) and many are by the same user, which seems like more argument against using UTF-8.<br></div></div><div class="m_-4683569468353448861gmail-m_-1361694804847114146m_576636856902696748HOEnZb"><div class="m_-4683569468353448861gmail-m_-1361694804847114146m_576636856902696748h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 11:17 AM, James <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james2432@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">james2432@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">so far the fractions I've seen are ½ and ¾ and ¼. On phones it's very easy to input fraction in unicode(press and hold the numerical value of the numerator: 1 for ½, ¼ or 2 for ⅔), but I agree that dealing with Bom of UTF-8 usually ends up being messed up and is why I'm asking what the norm for OSM is</div><div class="m_-4683569468353448861gmail-m_-1361694804847114146m_576636856902696748m_-8873938239321779225HOEnZb"><div class="m_-4683569468353448861gmail-m_-1361694804847114146m_576636856902696748m_-8873938239321779225h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Mar 12, 2018, 12:04 PM Vladimír Slávik, <<a href="mailto:Slavik.Vladimir@seznam.cz" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">Slavik.Vladimir@seznam.cz</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Technical: Unicode will be hard to manipulate by hand without a table of characters/symbols to copy from. Subsequent editors or users down the chain of tools will break it.  Most prominently, search may break, because users will not know how to input 1/2. (Oh look, I just didn't, either...).<br><br>Is it common to have more complicated fractions?  Here we append letters to do the same, and I have seen places where they had to go all the way to "h" - which would be 1/8 for you? Or 8/8? Does unicode even have 8/8? I haven't been able to find a decisive answer.<br>
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Datum: 12. 3. 2018 16:46:40<br>
Předmět: [Tagging] Tagging fraction house numbers?
<br><blockquote><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><a href="https://i.imgur.com/eigT5hX_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://i.imgur.com/eigT5hX_d.<wbr>jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&f<wbr>idelity=medium</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">How should this be tagged in housenumber? Using unicode ( ½ ) or ASCII( 1/2 )?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div>
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