[Imports] addressmerge 0.1 release

Pieren pieren3 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 11 10:10:45 UTC 2012


On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> wrote:
> I would suggest adding addr:city but not addr:country.
:
> Although theoretically addr:city can be inferred from the admin_level
> boundaries it is still useful to have. You will run into situations where
> the same address + street occurs in two nearby cities. Having addr:city
> makes editing easier in these case.

The same street shared by two cities occures on highly urbanized areas
only.. But you still can locate the node or building in one of the
city admin polygons. It can be helpful only in unusual cases where the
address is just on the border itself and therefore unpredicatable,
like a node on the admin way or a building overlapping. I don't
understand why you suggest to duplicate potentially millions of
identical tags when it can be easily retrieved by some query in a
geospatial database (as you will have to do anyway for the
county/region/state/country) just because you really need it for, let
say, 0.001% of uncertain cases.
Especially from someone who promotes the move of the tag 'source' from
the elements to the changesets.

Pieren



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