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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Well, in regards to Nominatim, from the horses mouth, so to speak:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><ThorstenEn> </span><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><a href="https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ui/details.html?osmtype=W&osmid=1024067995&class=building"><span lang=DE>https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ui/details.html?osmtype=W&osmid=1024067995&class=building</span></a></span><span lang=DE style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><ThorstenEn> why is the addr:unit being ignored here?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><lonvia> Because it always is.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><ThorstenEn> what is the reasoning for ignoring unit?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><lonvia> Nobody has implemented it yet.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><ThorstenEn> hm, I would have thought that's a pretty common case<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><simonpoole> ~1% maybe<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><ThorstenEn> 1% of all adresses is a pretty large absolute number<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><lonvia> Not common enough that anybody was willing to spend time and/or money.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><simonpoole> together with addr:flats a bit more, but in total just 2 million<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><simonpoole> naturally there's probably a negative feedback loop there<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Thorsten<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> Dian Ågesson <me@diacritic.xyz> <br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, 29 January 2022 20:30<br><b>To:</b> Andrew Harvey <andrew.harvey4@gmail.com><br><b>Cc:</b> OSM Australian Talk List <talk-au@openstreetmap.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [talk-au] Am I using addr:unit correctly?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Thanks Andrew,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>I was having a bit of a crisis of confidence as unit numbers don't seem to render as I expected, nor does nominatim seem to know what to do with them. <a href="https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ui/details.html?osmtype=W&osmid=1024067995&class=building">https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ui/details.html?osmtype=W&osmid=1024067995&class=building</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Dian<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p id=reply-intro><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>On 2022-01-27 10:27, Andrew Harvey wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #1010FF 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 5.0pt;margin-left:0cm;margin-right:0cm'><div id=replybody1><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Your use of addr:unit looks correct here, I don't believe it needs to be subdivisions of a single building. You could have villa style townhouses where each dwelling is a separate building on a single site, where each building has it's own addr:unit and they all share the same addr:housenumber. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>We should update the wiki to describe this as a valid scenario.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 at 10:24, Dian Ågesson <<a href="mailto:me@diacritic.xyz">me@diacritic.xyz</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><div><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>I had assumed that the addr:unit tag would be the appropriate place for a unit number in a subdivided block (specifically a complex such as this: <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1024067987#map=17/-38.06484/145.14231" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1024067987</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The wiki seems to suggest that the addr:unit is for subdivisions of a single building though and doesn't seem to be the right tag?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:unit" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:unit</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Dian<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>_______________________________________________<br>Talk-au mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Talk-au@openstreetmap.org">Talk-au@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>