<div dir="auto"><div>Unfortunately reality is new mappers cut and paste buildings so you end up with multiple buildings with the same address. There are three other problems, maintenance is the first. How do you ensure that new buildings get a code? Second in many parts of Africa the same building gets mapped more than once. Usually the outline that closest fits the building is left but that may not be the one with the address tag and finally how do you prevent someone from changing the tags? Vandalism is not unknown in OSM.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">From a practical point of view an encoded lat and long is a sort of basic works anywhere solution. Where there is better organisation for example in the alpine regions of Europe then more traditional forms of an address are to be preferred.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheerio John</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, 11 Aug 2018, 7:40 pm Simon Poole, <<a href="mailto:simon@poole.ch">simon@poole.ch</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Note my opposition, notwithstanding my general concerns about
fiddling with the markets, is founded in that plus codes are
just simply not very good/fit for purpose.</div>
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A pure numeric (because we know the phone numbers work) grid
reference relative to a suitable administrative entity.<br>
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BUT as this discussion shows, in the end you could simply number all
buildings in a place and add those numbers to OSM (as the
authoritative repository) and probably make everybody happier.
People seem to be looking more for unique ids for their dwellings
than something that is dependent on a relatively fine grained
location/coordinate value, of which you may have multiple for one
house. We know this works, it is still a very common system in
alpine regions in Europe.<br>
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Am 11.08.2018 um 16:39 schrieb Richard Fairhurst:<br>
> ....is a good idea,<br>
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</span>Note my opposition, notwithstanding my general
concerns about fiddling<br>
with the markets, is founded in that plus codes are just
simply not very<br>
good/fit for purpose. But as everybody should know that
isn't a<br>
hindrance to being successful in the marketplace and so that
aspect can<br>
safely be ignored.<br>
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