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    <p>See the original page on the Karlsruher schema:
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 23.01.2019 um 05:04 schrieb Eugene
      Alvin Villar:<br>
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                    <div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 4:11 PM Simon
                      Poole <<a href="mailto:simon@poole.ch"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">simon@poole.ch</a>>
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                      rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">[...] addr tags
                      are for postal addresses I don't think using them
                      as a<br>
                      level name/ref makes very much sense outside of
                      that very narrow<br>
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                    <div>I rechecked the two main OSM Wiki pages[1][2]
                      on addr:*=* tags and addresses in general and
                      there is no indication there that such tags are
                      only intended to encode postal addresses (aside
                      from the specific addr:postcode=* tag).
                      Personally, I use addr:*=* tags in any scenario
                      where addresses can be used, such as in
                      contact/location addresses which is used when the
                      general public (and not just the postman/mailman)
                      wants to go to an office, shop, or an
                      establishment. For example, the Consulate-General
                      of Japan in Hong Kong lists their location where
                      they can be reached[3] as "46-47/F, One Exchange
                      Square, 8 Connaught Place, Central, Hong Kong". I
                      could then encode this as:</div>
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                    <div>addr:floor=46-47/F</div>
                    <div>addr:housename=One Exchange Square</div>
                    <div>addr:housenumber=8</div>
                    <div>addr:street=Connaught Place</div>
                    <div>addr:place=Central (tag probably unnecessary if
                      Central is already a boundary)</div>
                    <div>addr:city=Hong Kong (probably unnecessary since
                      HK already has a boundary)</div>
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                    <div>As for level=*, I don't know whether this
                      building skips any floor numbers (4th? 14th? 24th?
                      etc.) so I would hold off on tagging level=* until
                      I get to see their elevator buttons.<br>
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                    <div>[1] <a
                        href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr</a></div>
                    <div>[2] <a
                        href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Addresses"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Addresses</a><br>
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                    <div>[3] <a
                        href="https://www.hk.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/opentime.html"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.hk.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/opentime.html</a><br>
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                    <div>~Eugene<br>
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Tagging mailing list
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Tagging@openstreetmap.org">Tagging@openstreetmap.org</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging</a>
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