Hi all,<div><br></div><div>That's a topic I like. Thanks!</div><div>And sorry for writing in English, but then I can better explain, I think.</div><div><br></div><div>First of all I think tagging an address with "addr:street" is not a good idea in Japan.</div>
<div>In Europe and US an address is defined by City + Street + House Nr., but in Japan the address system is different.</div><div>So in my opinion it would be bad to try to fit a Japanese address in the wrong address system.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Address databases have a high value, for example for geocoding. So I think we should do it right. It's not only for rendering a house number on the map ;-)</div><div>The OSM tagging is flexible and open to new tags if existing ones don't fit. Probably we need something new (tags and also input forms)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Japanese addresses have a "block" hierarchy. When you work with address data in Japan it is usually categorized with short names such as: pref, city, oaza, chiban ...</div><div>So naming like this would only work in Japan. But you could translate it to something like:</div>
<div><br></div><div>addr:prefecture</div><div>addr:city</div><div>addr:district</div><div>addr:block</div><div>addr:house</div><div><br></div><div>Maybe then it also works in other countries with a block address system.</div>
<div>But my point is, that we need to split the address into the parts of the address system.</div><div>To make it even more complicated, it's common that "$B%^%s%7%g%s(B" buildings have beautiful names.</div><div>And of course addresses are written in Kanji as well as Kana.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If this is all too complicated I agree with Ikiya-san and would just tag </div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">addr:full=$BL>8E20;TCfB<6hL>1X(B4-7-1</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">addr:postcode=450-0002</span></div><div><br>Daniel</div><div><br></div><div>PS: Kana writing in addresses can be quite important for sorting addresses by name.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/2/9 ikiya <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:insidekiwi555@yahoo.co.jp" target="_blank">insidekiwi555@yahoo.co.jp</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JA_talk:Key:place" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JA_talk:Key:place</a><br>$B"!%a!<%j%s%0%j%9%H$G$N5DO@(B<br><a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/talk-ja@openstreetmap.org/msg06574.html" target="_blank">http://www.mail-archive.com/talk-ja@openstreetmap.org/msg06574.html</a><br>
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<br>> $BF|K\$N=;=j$,$I$&$d$C$FF~$l$l$^$9$+!#$?$H$($P!"%H%h%?$NL>8E20%*%U%#%9!'(B<br>>
$BL>8E20;TCfB<6hL>1X(B4-7-1<br>$B$H$$$&$3$H$G$"$l$P!"(B<br><br>addr:country=JP<br>addr:region=$B0&CN8)(B<br>add:city=$BL>8E20;T(B<br>addr:postcode=450-0002<br><br>$B$^$G$O(BOK$B!"IU$1$i$l$^$9!#(B<br><br>$B!VCfB<6hL>1X(B4-7-1$B!W$NItJ,$K$D$$$F$O7h$^$C$F$$$^$;$s!#(B<br><br>$B$H$$$&$3$H$G<j7Z$KF~NO$9$kJ}K!$H$7$F$O(B<br>$BEl$5$s$*$9$9$a$N(Baddr:full$B$H(Baddr:postcode$B$r;H$C$?(B<br>
<br>addr:full=$BL>8E20;TCfB<6hL>1X(B4-7-1<br>addr:postcode=450-0002<br><br>$B$,NI$$$+$H;d$O;W$$$^$9!#(B<div><div class="h5"><br><br><br><br><br>--- On <b>Sat, 2013/2/9, Shu Higashi <i><<a href="mailto:s_higash@mua.biglobe.ne.jp" target="_blank">s_higash@mua.biglobe.ne.jp</a>></i></b> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16,16,255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px"><br><div>Hans
$B$5$s!"$3$s$K$A$O!#(B<br><br>$B;DG0$J$,$i=;=j$NF~$lJ}$O$^$@F|K\$G$O7h$^$C$F$$$^$;$s!#(B<br><br>$B;d<+?H$O8=;~E@$G$O!"=;=j$,J,$+$k$b$N$O(Bdata$B$H$7$FF~$l$F$*$-$?$$$N$G(B<br>addr:full=$BL>8E20;TCfB<6hL>1X(B4-7-1<br>$B$N$h$&$KF~$l$F$$$^$9!#(B<br>$B@5<0$K7h$^$C$?$iJ,3d$7$FF~$l$J$*$9$D$b$j$G$9!#(B<br><br>$BEl(B<br><br>2013/02/09 Hans Schmidt <<a href="http://mc/compose?to=z0idberg@gmx.de" target="_blank">z0idberg@gmx.de</a>>:<br>
> $B$3$s$K$A$O!#(B<br>><br>> $BF|K\$N=;=j$,$I$&$d$C$FF~$l$l$^$9$+!#$?$H$($P!"%H%h%?$NL>8E20%*%U%#%9!'(B<br>> $BL>8E20;TCfB<6hL>1X(B4-7-1<br>><br>> addr:country=JP<br>> add:city=$BL>8E20;T(B<br>> addr:postcode=450-0002<br>> addr:housenumber=1<br>><br>>
$B$=$3$^$G$O$^$@$o$+$j$^$9$,!"!V0&CN8)!W$H!VCfB<6h!W$H!VL>1X!W$H!V(B4$BCzL\!W(B<br>> $B$H!V(B7$BHVCO!W$,$I$3$KF~$j$^$9$+!#A4It(Baddr:street$B$KF~$l(B $B$l$P$$$$$G$9$+!)(B<br>> addr:street=$BCfB<6hL>1X(B4-7$B!)(B<br>><br>> $B$=$l$+F|K\$,<+J,$NIU$1J}$,$"$j$^$9$+!)(B<br>> $B$"$j$,$H$&$4$6$$$^$9(B<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>
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