[Imports] King County Address Imports
Paul Norman
penorman at mac.com
Thu Dec 27 10:42:58 UTC 2012
> From: Derick Rethans [mailto:osm at derickrethans.nl]
> Cc: imports at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [Imports] King County Address Imports
>
> On Mon, 17 Dec 2012, Richard Welty wrote:
>
> > On 12/17/12 4:38 PM, Christian Quest wrote:
> > > Why not use associatedStreet relations ? They are really convenient
> > > in this case of import... most tags can move to the relation and you
> > > can keep only the addr:housenumber on each node/way.
> > >
> > how well supported are they by data consumers? the address data will
> > be important in nav applications like OsmAnd and mkgmap. the whole
> > world isn't just the web site and nominatum
>
> I've always done both, as thats what JOSMs terracer plugin[1] did.
> AFAIK, the "Karlsruhe scheme" also accounts for this.
As of about a month ago there was a 10:1 preference in the database for
addr:street tags over membership in an associatedStreet relation.
Anecdotal evidence is that the relations are more fragile and prone to
breaking.
I seldom see associatedStreet relations in North America, so only using
addr:* tags is in accordance with how you'd normally manually map.
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