<div dir="ltr">On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 at 00:57, Martin Koppenhoefer <<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
> On 7. Jan 2020, at 01:17, Paul Allen <<a href="mailto:pla16021@gmail.com" target="_blank">pla16021@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> The question is, are we mapping an address or the location of a house name/number<br>
> plate associated with the address? I'd say the address.<br>
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both, we are mapping both, using the same tags: housenumbers and addresses <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'd say that mapping the same address both ways is confusing.</div><div><br></div><div>I'd also say that, in an example that appeared here earlier, where several properties</div><div>can be accessed by any of several gates, the correct way to handle it would not be</div><div>to put addresses on gates but by footpaths or pedestrian areas or similar and apply</div><div>the addresses to the buildings.<br></div><div><br></div><div>As I understand it, in some countries the emergency services use OSM. Knowing</div><div>the building they can figure out which gate to use. Knowing the gate may not tell</div><div>them which of several buildings they need to get to.</div><div><br></div><div>Then again, as long as people don't force me to put addresses at the end of</div><div>driveways, I'm not going to put much effort into arguing the point.</div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div>Paul</div><div><br></div></div></div>