[Geocoding] Housenumber 0 - special handling?

[Florian Lohoff]

Hi Sarah,

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 07:56:25PM +0100, Sarah Hoffmann wrote:
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 08:30:45PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> > On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 07:13:44PM +0100, Sarah Hoffmann wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 07:36:16PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> > > > 54558 Winkel, Reimelshof 0, DE
> > > 
> > > Are you sure that this the official address or are you just trying to
> > > model that this house has no house number? In the latter case
> > > addr:housename might be the better solution.
> > 
> > I verified with the Germany Bundesamt e.g. Webatlas and yes - they say
> > its "0".
> > 
> > http://sg.geodatenzentrum.de/web_bkg_webmap/applications/webatlasde/webatlasde.html
> 
> I wouldn't be surprised if that is simply because their software
> wasn't specified for addresses without house number. (But I would
> be even less surprised if some local authority gave out 0 house numbers
> just because the address doesn't fit into their forms otherwise.) What do
> the locals say, is the house number signed?

I found this address and the like because i have other datasets of a Big
Telecoms Company in Germany which contains these addresses. So i
tried to geocode them which failed - Then i entered the address and it
still failed to geocode ;)

So ALK and Companys actually use that address.

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                                                 f at zz.de
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